July 1988, Volume 1, No. 4
MARY BALDWIN
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President, Dr. Cynthia H. Tyson
Alumnae Association Officers
Anita Thee Graham '50 President
Barbara Knisely Roberts '73 1st Vice-President
Marie Westbrook Bream '82 Vice-President for Admissions
Ray Castles Uttenhove '68 Vice-President for Annual Giving
Susan Sisler '82 Vice-President for Chapter Development
Joanne Reich '88 Vice-President for Finance
Emily Dethloff Ryan '63 Chairman, Continuing Education Committee
Martha McMuUan Aasen '51 Chairman, Homecoming Committee
Lindsay Ryland Gouldthorpe '73 Chairman, Nominating Committee
Lee Johnston Foster '75 Ex-Officio, Executive Director of Alumnae
Activities
Andrea Oldham '89 Chairman, Shident Relations Committee
Laura Catching Alexander '71 Recording Secretary
Editorial Board
Lee Johnston Foster '75, Chair
Carolyn Haldeman Hawkins '63
Betty Engle Stoddard '60
Patrida Lovelace, College Chaplain
Lundy Pentz, Associate Professor of Biology
William Pollard, College Librarian
Ethel M. Smeak '53, Professor of English
Editor, R. Eric Staley
Managing Editor, Tamera Hintz
Design; Rick Bukoskey
Teri Stallard
The Mary Baldwin Magazine is published by Mary Baldwin College,
Office of College Relations, Staunton, VA 24401. © Copyright by
Mary Baldwin College. All rights reserved.
Front Cover:
The members of the Class of '38 enjoyed their "guests of
honor" status at this year's Homecoming, the 1988 graduat-
ing class celebrated their Commencement with family and
friends, and the Adult Degree Program held the program's
10th anniversary party during the eventful Commencement
and Homecoming celebration in May.
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MARY BALDWIN
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July 1£
, Volume 1 , No. 4
Class of '63 unites
for Parade of Classes
during Homecoming.
Peggy Kellam '88
shares Commencement
with her parents.
Faculty Emeritus,
Dr. Gates, injects fun into
history.
2 Overture
2 President's Message
Commencement and Homecoming
4 Eros and Episteme
8 Three Mirrors, One Self
12 Twenty-Five Years Later
14 Headlines and Bylines by Mary Baldwin
16 Memories of a Victorian Girlhood
R. Eric Staley
Cynthia H. Tyson
Martha N. Evans
Tiffany R. Bevan '88
Tern/ Geggie Fridley '63
Bail Willis '75
President Cynthia H. Tyson
18 Alumnae News
Strengthening Ties
Anita Thee Graham '50
Enjoy the Special Benefits of MasterCard Through MBC
Admissions Through Alumnae Action
A Glimpse of the Future Through the New Board
Entertaining, Celebrating, Unihng at Homecoming
Chapters in Action
Class Notes
38 At Mary Baldwin
Dedication Completes Renovation
Carpenter Academic Hall
Career Support
Alumnae Network is Vital to Students' Early Success
Commencement
Tennis Team Captures Championship
Acquisition of YMCA Adds 8.44 Acres
That Other George
Dr. Gates Injects Fun Into History
1988-89 SGA Leadership
Honors Convocation
Evans and Metraux Named National Scholars
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I am having a hard time believing this: the
issue of The Mary Baldwin Magazine you are
now holding completes our first volume
year! A little over a year ago from this writing
(it is still May) we were happily, and some-
what nervously, planning this new venture.
It has been an exciting year, hasn't it? We
thank you for your help.
What is it that comes at the end of a year in
academia? Commencement, of course —
and, at Mary Baldwin, also Homecoming. It
is appropriate, then, that the final issue of the
magazine's first year should take these two
occasions as its theme.
So it is that this issue carries feature stories
in which a professor. Dr. Martha Evans,
honors Mary Baldwin's distinguished stu-
dents; an alumna, Terry Geggie Fridley '63,
evaluates her graduation class twenty-five
years later; another alumna, Dail Willis '75,
finds Mary Baldwin in her professional ca-
reer today; and a graduating senior — now
also an alumna — Tiffany Bevan, stands in
front of three mirrors as she seeks to under-
stand who she was, who she is, and who she
wUl come to be because of her Mary Baldwin
experience.
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow — proper
reverie for the summer months. Recollec-
tions continue in this issue as we present, as
promised, our President's own special essay,
"Memories of a Victorian Girlhood." I think
you will agree that Dr. Tyson's essay is one of
those pieces that evoke, and evoke again,
images, thoughts, and sensory detail from
our own lives, leaving us a little more at ease
with who we are.
Yet another example of the past being
brought forward to the present is found in
the At Mary Baldwin section of this issue.
After four-score years, the old Academic
Building was treated to renovation through
the generosity of the E. Rhodes and Leona B.
Carpenter Foundation and named after
Leona Bowman Carpenter who attended
Mary Baldwin in the early 1930s.
July. High summer. A time for moving
slowly, thinking deeply; a time for reassess-
ing and planning. At Mary Baldwin we use
this time to bring the past into perspective,
that we might serve students better in the
future. All endings are new beginnings, are
they not?
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As you all know, the Board of Trustees of Mary Baldwin College meets, as a ful
Board, twice a year: in mid-April and in early October. These meetings are timed tc
monitor College policy and general business at the opening of each year (October
and at the end of of each year (April). Thus, we go through an annual process 0|
establishing goals, priorities, fiscal and programmatic contexts, and then of evaluat;
ing progress.
It is my responsibility at each meeting to give an overall College report to thi
Board. Let me share with you some of what I said in April, 1988.
Each of us who works at the College is aware that the Board of Trustees is no
responsible for administrative matters, but, nevertheless. Board members must b(
kept aware of what the administration has decided and done in all areas of the
College. So it is that reports are provided from key areas of the College reflectinj
College business. Often, the information is quantitative, rightly so. Board member
receive reports on admissions figures, retention rates, annual fund statistics, alum
nae chapter activities, donor participation, summer programs with numbers o
people participating and income generated, budget projections for the current am
next fiscal years, and so on. Changes in student services are covered, and thi
faculty's work in regulating academic life and its own professional life are presented
Thus, the Board is able to measure our competence and performance. In April, wi
measured up.
Unusual highlights of a year are cited. In April, I was, therefore, able to drav
attention to the dedication of Carpenter Academic Hall, the restoration of Memoria
Hall, the purchase of 8.44 acres and a physical activities building belonging to th
YMCA, a Guggenheim Fellowship to one of our faculty, a Fulbright Scholarship ti
another, awards won by publications designed and produced by our College Rela
tions staff, unusual and quite spectacular media coverage enhancing College visibil
ity and prestige. And on and on went the report, for this has, indeed, been a stron;
year, marked by successes all across the College.
My point, however, is that these successes, although on rare occasions serendipi
tous, are the results of planning in careful, creative, and courageous ways by th
people who work here and by our volunteers. We plan for what happens here, W
know what to do, why we're doing it, when to do it, and how. Routines have reason
and we know the large and future-oriented mission into which they fit.
But most importantly of all is who implements the plan. Organizations are nc
faceless. A key task is the recruitment and retention of excellent personnel. In th
faculty, we seek to attract and retain those who understand in minute, daily ways, a
well as in broad, scholarly ways, that individual attention to each student, tha
teaching, that caring about each person's development provide this College it
distinctive role. In the staff, an excellent standard of ability and competence, fa
outstripping the average, is required in each area. And in both faculty and staff,
basic "principle of personnel" is that professional competence of a high level in an'
of itself is not enough, for it must be combined with a spirit of cooperation wit;
)thers, a generosity of heart and mind towards others, so that there are no irrelevant
>arriers to achieving College goals as expeditiously as possible.
It seems to me that this "principle of personnel" works in any organization, but is
larticularly crucial in ours. In a teaching entity, each person on faculty and staff is a
ole model. We all teach all the time. So, a value system, the highest standard of
ntegrity, a hard-work ethic, a creative and innovative spirit, a kindly demeanor, an
•ngagement with life, a sense of humor, should bespeak the Mary Baldwin environ-
nent as it is lived out by each of us each day.
These, of course, are aspects of our College that defy quantitative measurement,
mt they motivate the positive framework in which the successes that are translated
o succinctly into quantitative data are made possible.
Each of us. Board members or not, gets a sense of Mary Baldwin in its broadest
cope by moving through quantity to quality, program to personality, code to
reativity. Thus are we a College that is alive and fruitful: a wonderful place.
Attrition percentages (the number of students who do not
complete their four years of college at Mary Baldwin) are
low by any standards.
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The first issue of The Mary Baldwin Magazine received a
Grand Award from the Council for the Advancement and
Support of Education in the category of Publications
Improvement.
Commencement AND Homecoming
w
hen I was a young teen-ager in the
'50s, a movie came out which
struck me deeply. It was The Red
Shoes. I saw it several times. It was
the story of a young ballerina,
played by a beautiful, young,
willowy, pale woman whose
name has now retreated into the recesses of my
middle-aged mind. But I do remember what hap-
pened in the movie. The young ballerina was a genius
at dancing and she was encouraged and trained by the
head of a ballet troupe who was a hard task-master.
He pushed the ballerina almost beyond her endur-
ance, but her hard work paid off and she became a
star. One of her main roles was in the ballet, "The Red
Shoes," in which a young girl dons a pair of magic
shoes that won't let her stop dancing; in the course of
the ballet she is literally danced to death by the magic
shoes.
Meanwhile the ballerina meets another man — a
writer, as I recall — with whom she falls in love and
whom she eventually marries. Right away there is a
kind of power struggle between the two men in her
life — her husband and her dance-master — for her time
and devotion. They both issue an ultimatum: she must
choose between her artistic life and her personal rela-
tionship. She loves both men and both parts of her life
and doesn't know how to choose. Just before another
performance of "The Red Shoes," feeling trapped and
in a paroxysm of misery, she runs out of her dressing
room and jumps from a balcony into the path of a train
and is killed. The last scene in the movie shows the
ballet of "The Red Shoes" — now another kind of
dance of death — going on without her, the spotlight
following the empty place on the stage where the
ballerina should have been.
As all young, impressionable, romantic teenagers, I
identified with
the young bal-
lerina in the
movie. There
was something
both chilling
and fascinating
in her beauty, in
her tragic choice
between her
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love and her passion for her art, for excellence. Her
solution to this conflict did not, may I say, provide
what we would call now a good role model. Throwing
yourself in front of a train does not seem a creative
solution to problems. Nevertheless, the message the
movie left with me and 1 suppose with a lot of other
teenaged girls then was that you had to choose, you
couldn't have both — you couldn't be devoted to love
and family life, and a career at the same time.
Those were the years of the Feminine Mystique.
When I got to college and started studying French
literature, I read about a lot of other women, heroines
of novels and plays, who ended up the same way as
the ballerina in the movie The Red Shoes — that is,
dead — some by suicide, others by sudden, strange
wasting illnesses that carried them off at the end of the
book leaving behind a raft of grieving men — Iseut in
Tristan et Iseut, Phedre, Antigone, Manon Lescaut,
Julie in La Nouvelle Heloise, Camille in La Dame aux
camelias, and last but not least, Emma Bovary.
What was going on here? Why all these corpses?
Granted, men die in novels and plays too, but as soon
as a woman appeared as a heroine in a work of art, as a
central rather than a secondary character, I began
saying to myself, uh oh, for sure she's going to be
killed off soon. And usually she was.
Again, I identified with these heroines who were all
strong expansive women with lusty passions, who
loved not just a man or men, but life itself. 1 admired
them, I wanted to be like them, but at the same time, I
didn't want to end up dead, not like that. I felt there
was some gyp involved, that the decks were stacked
against them and me in a way I couldn't yet under-
stand. Something inside me said; No, it can't be like
that.
But when I looked around me in what we call the
real world, in the world of the women's college where
I was, things
didn't look too
different. The
campus wasn't
strewn with
corpses, to be
but
when I looked
at the profes-
sors, the role
EPISTEME
models I had, I began getting the ^ , , -. _, manded by society, but which were at
same message I had gotten from T/ie UXj JVlClTtnCl hVClTlS the same time self-defeating in a pro-
found way.
Red Shoes — there are radical dualities
in women's lives that dictate self-destructive choices;
you have to choose; you can't mix private and profes-
sional passions.
At that time at Wellesley CoDege the entire adminis-
tration was made up of women, and the faculty was,
as it is here, about half men and half women. Al-
though professors didn't talk about their private lives,
the students lived closely with them, we got invited
sometimes to their homes, and we ended up knowing,
for instance, who was married and who was not. It
began to dawn on me that almost all the men were
married and almost none of the women were. During
my four years at Wellesley, I had only one woman
professor who was married, the second wife of a
famous philosopher at Harvard — she herself was a
philosophy professor, and she seemed to me at the
time eccentric, bizarre, really crazy. Her eyes darted
around during class; she always seemed harried, ner-
vous, distracted. As soon as class was over, she would
dash out of the room and take off for Cambridge.
The others were "old maids." We didn't have any
other word at the time to describe middle-aged
women who weren't married. These old maids, then,
from the president of the college on down, were
terrific women — brilliant, energetic, lively, devoted to
their teaching and scholarly lives, most of them very
attractive; people you liked to be with, people you
wanted to be like. And yet, unlike their male col-
leagues, they went home to empty houses at night, no
spouses and children to welcome them. 1 often won-
dered if they were lonely, but never dared to ask.
So this is what surrounded me — ordinary married
women who in life and literature seemed to play
secondary roles; the heroines of literature who were
strong and vivid characters, who gave themselves up
to their erotic passions but who ended up dead. And a
group of equally strong and lively women who, in real
Ufe, had channeled their passions into their careers,
but at the price of sacrificing what we might call their
private loves. Life and art seemed to be communicat-
ing the same message. The masterpieces of past centu-
ries and the small twentieth-century New England
community of blue-stockings I lived in were telling me
the same thing about women's hves, the same thing
about the choices we had to make. I was still feeling
like the ballerina in The Red Shoes, and I didn't like it. I
was miserable.
Even though everyone must accept limitations and
make hard choices, women's lives seemed struck
through with especially stark dualities, and choices
that were fraught with self-destructiveness, self-
maiming. Choices that were condoned, if not de-
Well, a lot has changed. We have had the sexual
revolution and women's liberation. But even if the
sexual double standard has begun to disappear and
even if women have forced the door of some institu-
tions like law school and the Jaycees, and demanded
equal pay, liberation does not take place only on the
level of institutions if it is to be meaningful, and
especially if it is to last. It takes place within also,
within the individual, within each person's mind and
feelings.
My liberation came from reading, or rather from re-
reading those same books I spoke about; the stories of
those dead heroines. It was a different kind of reading,
though, that I now undertook. And it was precisely
not the kind of reading I had been taught in college by
the professors I admired so.
What I discovered was perhaps a general but para-
doxical law — that liberation comes not from letting
loose, from wildness, but rather from hard work,
discipline, and especially and most unexpectedly from
the gesture of working within the very limitations one
is tempted to throw off. In this particular case, it
involved not reading these texts, as I had been taught,
from a general, universal — and sexless — point of
view, but rather from my position as a woman who
was caught precisely in the stark dualities, the hard
choices I just mentioned. It meant, then, reading as a
woman, or, as Virginia Woolf put it, it meant thinking
through our mothers.
T
he first mother I thought of was the
mother of us all — Eve. The same Eve
who disobeyed, who overreached and
brought punishment on us all. But re-
reading Eve's story as a woman meant
that now I did not see her as she is
usually seen — yielding to temptation
because she was the weaker sex, a woman full of guile,
a seductress, the great deceiver. I saw her in another
way. What I now saw in our mother's story was her
longing, a longing that blended two elements of life
we usually think of as quite separate. So separate in
fact, that we often assign them to the different sexes as
a sign of their separateness — those two things are
sensuality and knowledge. In Eve's plucking of the
forbidden fruit, I could feel not only her mouth water-
ing to taste its pulpy savor, but another kind of hun-
ger, another kind of longing — the longing for
knowledge and the empowerment that comes with it.
In that one gesture of reaching out to taste her knowl-
edge, to take it in her mouth and roll it on her tongue.
Eve broke the rule of separation and, her punishment.
and ours, was not death as God had promised but
separation for us all.
It struck me that Eve's story as recounted in the
Bible was actually not so different from the story of
those other heroines in the French books I had read.
They too broke the rules, reached out for forbidden
fruit, and were punished by their literary creators.
Their passions, too, were not just sensual, a lusting
after pleasure, but were, like Eve's, at the same time a
longing for knowledge and the empowerment that
comes with it. A longing for knowledge of the world, a
longing to know the world's taste, to push and bulge
out limits, to test knowledge on and in their own
bodies.
In one story, Manon Lescaut is about to be sent to a
convent school as a punishment at age 15 for her
wicked ways. She escapes by running away with the
young Des Grieux. She refuses to be closed up, shut
away, but ends up being sent away again, again for
wickedness — that is, seducing the sons of upper-
class families. She is sent to the New World, and there
she discovers a new world in herself, a different kind
of love that is non-exploitive and sweet. But then she
dies suddenly and mysteriously in the wilderness,
being chased once again by the authorities.
Emma Bovary is closed in too, closed in a
marriage with a man who is less intelli-
gent and energetic than she. She spends
her time, looking out the windows of her
small provincial house, dreaming of
other places, other Lives . Her affair with
Rodolphe is a way of breaking out, as it
was for Manon. Adultery is the only way Emma has of
revolting against the rules and conventions that cir-
cumscribe her life, the only way she has of exploring
the world. Sexual passion becomes a vehicle, literally
— she and her lover first make love in a carriage (a
passage in the book that got Flaubert indicted for
obscenity) — and figuratively, her adulterous passion
is also a vehicle for moving into the world, for explor-
ing it on her own. But her great passion in Flaubert's
story carries her, not away to a new world, but into a
cul-de-sac. After tasting the forbidden fruit of inde-
pendence and ecstasy, the apple turns to poison —
Emma swallows arsenic and dies a long and very
painful death.
Although it was the authors of these tales who
mangled the heroines and left them for dead, there
may already have been some self-destruction in their
kind of knowing which was precisely, in the etymo-
logical sense of the word "ecstatic": a standing outside
the self, a willingness to let go of ego, to burst the
limits of separateness. There was already a kind of
self-abnegation in their submission, not only to the
one they loved but to the world they longed to know.
But, as I read these books as a woman and identified
with these passionate sisters of mine, their self-less-
ness, their submission to the Other, seemed to be of a
different kind than that imagined by their authors; it
was not a sign of powerlessness, not the slow sapping
of disease, nor the final maiming of death, but some-
thing else.
As 1 attempt to define what that other selflessness
might be, I feel limited by the words our culture gives
us, just as with the term, "old maid." What is a word
to celebrate this losing of the self? What is the word
that describes a submission which does not betoken
weakness, an obliteration which is not death?
I can only try to find new words for this ecstasy which
is also knowledge, this knowledge which is at the
same time a yielding and a reaching out, a sacrifice and
a coming together.
Women know, I shall say, as we make love, by loss
and submission, but a loss and submission that is a
liberation, a loss and a submission that free us to
become one with the Other, to become one with the
world: to know the world by becoming it, becoming
Other than ourselves. We open to the loved one, to the
world, we take them into ourselves, to taste and savor
them as we taste and savor ourselves. This is a knowl-
edge that does not come from mastery and posses-
sion, from separation and objectivity, but crazily and
against all logic, by our becoming ourselves the thing
to be known. Our bodies and our minds, as hysterics
have always known, are one.
If this is the case, why then did these brave and
passionate women keep ending up dead in the stories
whose heroines they were? Why this maiming, this
punishment? It seemed to me, as I reread, that the
recognition of the power inherent in women's passion
where ecstatic union and knowledge, where eros and
episteme became one, must have stunned the very
male writers who imagined and unleashed it. They
must have been frightened, I realized, by the very
power of the women whose master they had thought
to be.
The tragic endings, the female corpses, finally made
sense to me, made sense as a defense and a punish-
ment, the destruction of a creation gone wild, of a
creature that had somehow taken on her own life
beyond the will of her creator. These women whose
knowledge was in their own bodies must have seemed
to their authors a vision of chaos, a world where
boundaries no longer existed, where self was swal-
lowed up. The death of the heroines was not really
their own death, then, but someone else's. It was the
death of the authors, or rather, the end of their au-
thority; this vision of the death of their mastery was so
unsettling, so threatening, that the authors now had
to kill off its embodiment. They had to cut off, to leave
behind, to kill that vision of this boundless power in
order to preserve the transcendence of their word.
And in that moment of my realization, which was at
the same time a moment of encounter, the moment
when I became one, not with the heroines, but with
the authors of those tragic tales, when I could submit
to them and love the other kind of sacrifice they had
made, when I could look, not with indignation, but
with sadness on their self-maiming as my own — in
that moment the corpus of those tragedies came alive;
the corpses of all those dead but lusty heroines rose up
liberated from their sacrifice. It was resurrection day!
Eve, Iseut, Manon Lescaut, Phedre, Julie, Camille,
Emma Bovary — they all rose up, living again, sumptu-
ous and strong. They, I, were free at last and, smiling,
we walked about in fields of flowers.
From that moment on, nothing was the same . . .
Well, as I look back now my teachers seem different
to me too. I regard, for instance, with a great deal more
sympathy that crazy, harried, darty-eyed philosophy
professor who spent her time on the road back and
forth to Cambridge. Looking back, I also realize that at
least some of those old maids, whom I thought to be so
lonely, had other loves, but ones they were forced to
hide and dared not speak about. . . .
And so here I am today, a professor in my turn, and
married, and with children, teaching the books that
were taught to me, learning over and over again that
truth I realized in my moment of liberation — knowl-
edge is never mastery. Even though it may be proved
on my body, it is never owned; it cannot be possessed;
it is never finally mine. In order to know, one must
stUl, and over and over again, grasp and at the same
time let go, take chances, frightening risks that make
one feel at times as if one were indeed jumping off a
balcony. Never ceasing to love the world and to take
Ufe into ourselves with a fierceness that is at once
awesome and unforgettably sweet.
ne thing I do know for certain is that
if 1 were to give you the assignment
of rewriting The Red Shoes, the story
would not end with an empty spot-
Ught!
So take your bow, enjoy the ap-
plause, it all belongs to you.
NOTE: Martha Evans, associate professor of French, first
presented this article as a speech for the 1 988 Honors Convo-
cation with a dedication to Edith Melcher and Anne Jones.
The speech has been edited for the magazine format.
Commencement and Homecoming
Three Mirrors, /^
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efore. . . during. . . and after.
A makeover? No, not exactly. I am talking about my
life here at Mary Baldwin. Looking in the mirror today
I see a different picture of myself than the one I saw
four years ago leaving high school. The pictures of my
life "before" Mary Baldwin College are definitely dif-
ferent from those "during" my four years here. I am
also sure the "after" pictures will be just as different. I
see these three images in the mirror as stages of my
life: what 1 was before I came, what happened to me
while I was here, and what I think will happen as a
result of my being here.
First of all, the "Before" picture. . .
I have always been one of those people who loved
school. Every afternoon when I came home from
elementary school I would play school with my
friends. Even in junior and senior high I used to sit in
class and think of ways the teacher could better get
through to us. Thank goodness they never knew what
was going on in my head. I always thought learning
should be made as exciting as possible by the teacher
because of a dynamic sixth grade teacher who did just
that for me. I can still remember the lesson on charis-
matic leaders Mr. Tucker taught. He turned off the
lights in the room, got all the students in a huddle and
told us we were going to take over the school. He said
the first thing we would do was raise Mrs. Butler's
pantyhose up the flagpole which was the most excit-
ing part of the takeover since she was the assistant
principal we were all afraid of. Then Mr. Tucker got us
chanting, "We will triumph! We will triumph!" I can
still see myself chanting and suddenly shocked when
he told Timmy to go turn the lights on because, "That
my friends, is what a charismatic leader, like Hitler,
does to get his followers to do anything he wants. " No
other teacher had ever made learning so real like Mr.
Tucker.
As time went by and high school came I thought the
teachers started caring less. Then I realized it was us,
the students, who were caring less. That was a big
step. I realized that my involvement in the class would
help me get more out of it. I needed to start talking in
class. That was all fine and good to realize, a big adult
step, but there was another problem. A big one. There
is seldom class discussion in a public high school class
of 35 people who did not want to be there. But, my
next big thought that came along was college. That is
where people really care about teaching and learning.
So what college did I want to attend? The answer to
this question was to shape my look in the mirror for
many years to come.
Another look in that mirror showed the image of
someone who loved student government and really
wanted to have a chance to get involved. I was vice-
president of my high school sophomore and junior
year and loved it. I wanted a college where I would
have a chance to continue this involvement and really
do something for the college community. Most of my
friends were planning to go to Virginia Tech, Univer-
sity of Virginia and James Madison University. I knew
I would be lost there. I wanted many opportunities for
involvement and I kept thinking about that personal
attention from teachers. Where would I find it?
I looked at several of the smaller colleges in Virginia
and decided on . . . no, not Mary Baldwin, but Univer-
sity of Richmond. I had the college interview and was
ready to go that summer before my high school senior
year. Then it happened. My neighbor, June Strader, a
Mary Baldwin alumnae who had been giving me infor-
mation about the school, got through to me (you know
how those alumnae are). So, I decided to visit MBC.
The minute I met the admissions staff and a few
students who were working over the summer, I knew
it was for me. It just felt right.
Jane Kornegay '83, associate director of admissions,
told me about the personal attention that made class
discussions comfortable. She said the chances for stu-
dent involvement were great and they talked about all
of the committees and chair positions. I was excited.
Plus, I, the person who loved school, loved their
education department. I could get certified to teach.
During the perspective overnight, Patty Westhafer
gave a little explanation of the department during a
career choices discussion. I also visited an education
seminar with Dr. Irving. There were five people in the
class. Talk about personal attention.
It all looked great. EXCEPT. . .Mary Baldwin is a
women's college. How would I like that? The students
I met assured me I would still see men, but how often?
Their answer was weekends were the main times for
mixers and roadtrips, but weekdays could easily be
maneuvered to include them. All right, one question
answered, but there was yet another. All of my friends
who had as much sense as I did, asked, "How will you
learn to relate to men in the world?"
How many MBC students have
heard that question? My
sister, Noel, who is attend-
ing MBC next year, was re-
cently asked it by one of her
friends in response to
her coming here. She
gave the correct
answer, the one
she has
heard from
MBC counselors and students alike as well as from
me. The answer. . .We learn to think and to be inde-
pendent women.
So how did it all turn out? Were they right? Did the
admissions staff paint too rosy a picture?
D.
unng. . .
I came. I experienced — and the admissions staff
and students I talked to were right. The picture they
painted was right for me and it is what has made me
the confident young woman I see in the mirror to this
day.
The first day of college, 1 walked into the lounge
of McClung and the floorboard representatives
greeted me like they had known me forever.
My house president, Margaret Emory,
came in my room a couple hours after
I arrived. Posters were every
where, my mom was hang-
ing curtains and my dad
was saying, "Patsy, let's
get on our way and let Tif-
fany start doing her own thing."
Margaret said she would be
around to help or just talk if 1
wanted her after my parents
left. She came back to the
room after they left and
started telling me how much
she loved MBC. I also found
out she loved Hampden-Syd-
ney College. Margaret took me
on my first roadtrip to the second
love of her life. This is another ad-
vantage of MBC, upper classmen who
knew people at other schools are in dorms with fresh-
men.
That first day, Margaret also told me how much fun
she and the rest of the floorboard had decorating our
dorm with Peanuts characters. She told me all about
the things we would be doing in the dorm, like honor
council and judicial lectures and parties. One dorm
party she did not tell me about was the surprise
midnight exam break the floorboard was to throw us
before Christmas. We thought we were having a reg-
ular firedrill one snowy night until we started to come
back inside and the floorboard came out of the lounge
with flashing fireman's hats on singing to a blaring
stereo, "Welcome to the 'Burning down the House'
Party."
Fun and support like this given by my floorboard is
one of the reasons I decided to run for Honor Council!
the following two years. The floorboard was not the
only group of people who greeted the freshmen with
enthusiasm. SAB (Student Advisory Board) Rush was.
an entire courtyard of chairwomen "hungry" for new'
members. That was an experience. I had been waiting
to get involved and here was my chance.
Out of all my activities at Mary Baldwin I would say
my experience as chairwoman of the RLC (Religious
Life Committee) and member of Honor Council taught
me the most lessons about working for something 1
believe in. I learned a lot about organization, time
management and most importantly about people and
how to work with different personalities during those
years. Wednesday nights during junior year I had tot
learn to balance choir rehearsal, teaching three piano
lessons, having an RLC meeting or Bible study, pray-
ing that we would not have an honor trial and!
trying to fit in studying, which is what 1
thought I came to school for. It does not:
sound as bad as it feels when at least
three nights a week consisted of
meetings. The funny part is
that my schedule wasi
nothing compared to some
students' incredible amount ol!
extracurricular activities. I do noti
know how those other students felt,j
but I would not change or delete one oil
those meetings from my college life. They
really did teach me to plan my time and
work with people. I learned responsibility;
when to rely on myself, when to delegate and
when to pick up the pieces. Still, there is something
about those activihes I would change. The cursed RLC
plant sale that was supposed to last the first two weeks
of my senior lasted two months. If I had to do it over
again I would have bought less and sold them
cheaper. If it was not for our sponsor. Rev. Pat Love-'
lace, tolerating plants enough to buy ten for her living
room, we could have been even longer selling them.
In a situation like this, I learned that quality and hard
work needed to mean more to me than quantity if 1
wanted to maintain my sanity.
I know a larger school would also have provided a
lot of opportunities, but there was an entire courtyard
full, freshman year and the following, just waiting al
my fingertips. All I had to do was sign my name and 1
could receive notices about meetings whether I evei
went to a meeting or not. I learned about that by being
a chairwoman. The opportunity to get involved righl
away and plunge into responsibility started changing
my picture.
After orientation week, onward to class. The first
lay of classes, I remember dressing up and assuming
little different look than the one that tends to accom-
lany a senior during exams. But the look was soon to
lecome the least important impression factor. Who
v^as I trying to impress? Well if they were my profes-
ors, then I surely would not impress them with
lothes. When Dr. Trice passed that syllabus down the
isle, 1 found out what impressed these people. Hard
rork and more of it. A quiz everyday, tests with 150
luestions, a chapter of reading a night. My high
chool ears had never heard of such a thing. Sud-
lenly, all of those answers I thought I had started
lopping up as questions. Did 1 really love school? Did
really say I wanted the chance to speak out in class?
Vhat was 1 thinking? What was I doing in this class-
oom?
It did not take long to realize the picture of myself
nust change. After a few weeks, some of those
uestions were answered with the new reali-
ation that there is an entire world of
jiowledge out there, and it is going
3 take some hard work to find,
'his was not the only realiza-
ion. These professors,
Ithough a little intimidating
D freshmen (and even to se-
ders), really care. They want to
hare their enthusiasm for their
ubject. They taught me to appreciate
11 areas of learning that I would not have
lad the chance to discover if I had not
ttended a liberal arts coUege. Learning that
here are a million different avenues to explore, is
irecisely what I had been looking for even though
tiy naive high school-oriented mind thought it would
le a little easier to come by. And the more I learned the
jss 1 knew. That was all right though, because these
irofessors really wanted to teach us how to learn so
re could experience "new dimensions" indepen-
lently. 1 believe they call it "stretching the mind." It
ure felt painful sometimes, but that was alright too
lecause I also learned the effort was worth it.
Including the professor's enthusiasm for their sub-
let, personal attention was there too. That meant that
he class discussion I had convinced myself I wanted
vas available either to show the professor what 1 knew
nd share my opinion, or be greatly exposed for not
laving read. There was always opportunity, and I
earned so well it depends on you to make it the best it
an be.
I know the image of myself during these past four
'ears has changed a httle each year because of all the
Kings I have learned, and I can feel the change,
'ecently, I had to prepare my philosophy of education
for a job interview to teach in an elementary school. As
1 was thinking about it, I saw how much I have grown
since I first came to Mary Baldwin. I believe that
learning should be an ongoing process in everyone.
We should want to learn everyday of our Uves. If we
are always learning then we will always be changing.
If we let education be a dynamic aspect of our lives,
then we will be dynamic. Would the person in that
mirror four years ago have said this? No. The MBC
professors and the chance to grow with support all
around me are the factors that helped me to realize
what learning is all about.
So how will this affect my "after" picture?
A
nd After. .
How can I answer this question when I
am a 1988 graduate, you might ask.
The Mary Baldwin alumnae of
graduating classes from fif-
teen, twenty and
twenty-five years ago are
som.e of the most dynamic
people 1 know. I am not giving
credit to Mary Baldwin for their
enthusiasm and achievements
in life, but I can say they give
some of the credit to Mary
Baldwin.
I can see myself years down
the road doing many of the
things I admire so much in the
alumnae. Getting involved in or-
ganizations is important to me
now. I would have never thought I
would be saying this four years ago. I
also would not have believed I had as much to offer as I
do now, and rightly so. What I have to offer has
increased as my experiences have.
I know my image in the mirror has changed these
past four years and know it will continue to change
because 1 have learned something more important
than the experience of working in committees, work-
ing with faculty and administration and learning
about things I have always wanted to learn about.
I am always going to be changing. I am going to be
the most I can be which means 1 am going to be happy
with how far I have come, but I am not going to settle
for that place.
Thank you everyone who has helped my image in
the mirror change these past four years. Now it is up to
the good Lord and me to improve on it.
Commencement AND Homecoming
TWENTY- FIVE YEARS
LATER
BY TERRY GEGGIE FRIDLEY '63
hen the class of 1963 en-
tered Mary Baldwin in
1959, Dwight Eisen-
hower was president,
and Richard Nixon was
vice-president. Hawaii
had just become a state.
LaAxf Chatterli/'s Lover
had been banned by the
Postmaster General as
not having any hterary
merit. We had grown
up watching television
shows such as "Your
Show of Shows,"
"Leave it to Beaver,"
and "I Love Lucy. " Folk
singing was the rage
with Joan Baez and Bob
Dylan. The Pulitzer
Prize for Literature in
1959 was won by Wil-
liam Faulkner for The
Reivers and best picture
of 1959 was Tom Jones.
Our class entered
Mary Baldwin from
over fifteen different
states with many differ-
ent backgrounds. We
entered with 158 stu-
dents and seventy-six
students stayed and
graduated in 1963. Two
of our graduates are
now deceased. Emily
Wirsing Kelly died of
leukemia and Betty
McGlamery Grandstaff
was killed in a car acci-
dent. As we look back at
our experiences at
MBC, we will have
myriad and varied
reminiscenses. Do you
remember Sky High?
The Covered Way? Eat-
ing in the old dining
hall? Having to wear a
coat if we were to wear
pants out of the dorm?
Having to holler "man
on the hall?" I am sure
that each one of the
class of '63 has a special
memory about how
things use to be.
As we come back to
the campus and see all
the many changes and
advances we wonder if
this is the same Mary
Baldwin that we at-
tended twenty-five
years ago. We remem-
ber favorite professors,
friends, and activities.
Do you remember
when the Princeton
Glee Club came to Mary
Baldwin? Do you re-
member your first
mixer at UVA? How
about your first W & L
fraternity party or your
first VMl parade? SMA?
We see that the old
Staunton Military
Academy is now a part
of the Mary Baldwin
campus and great plans
are underway to make it
an integral part of our
campus. We now have
PEG, which is a pro-
gram for exceptionally
gifted girls that allows
young girls to come to
MBC and complete
high school and college
in a compressed num-
ber of years.
Mary Baldwin is still a
women's Presbyterian
college' located in
Staunton, but now with
a vivacious and charis-
matic woman presi-
dent. At present there
are around 780 full-time
students, and the col-
lege has instituted an
adult degree program
as well. There are
10,115 alumnae of
MBC. They live in
forty-eight states and in
thirty-six foreign coun-
tries. According to sta-
tistics provided by the
Alumnae Office, over
30% live in the state of
Virginia. Of all the
alumnae of the college,
40% hold graduate de-
grees including mas-
ter's, doctoral, ant
professional degrees
Currently 80% of recen
graduates are em
ployed. According t(
statistics, 65% of al
alumnae are employed
The most common oc
cupations are mana
gerial and educatioi
related vocations.
When I started t(
think about coming t(
our 25th reunion las
fall, I was also thinkinj
about what I was goinj
to do for a Master's The
sis for my finishing de;
gree from HoUin
College. I decided to di
a survey of the gradui
ates of Mary Baldwin'
class of 1963. In Januar
the questionnaire
went out, and my proi
ect was launched. I in
serf a thank you to eacf
of you who took time ti
give such thoughtfu
answers.
Some of the facts the
I accumulated might b
interesting to the class
Of the responses I n
ceived, 77.5% of the n
spondents reporte
that they had been bor
in Virginia or in state
south of Virginiz
Therefore, we can se
that the majority of th
students that entere
MBC in 1959 wer
southern ladies. Bi
twenty-five years latt
only 17.5% live in tb
state of Virginia; 50'
live in Virginia or state
south of Virginia. N
one was born in Califo
nia, but now 12.5% liv
there. Only 10% of tb
respondents are sti
living in the same plac
where they were bori
living in the same stai
in which they wei
born are 27.5%. Then
sponses show that the
graduates are living in
fifteen different states
and Canada.
As to the marital sta-
tus of the women that
replied to my survey,
forty-two of the forty-
four women are mar-
ried and one of the re-
maining single women
is presently engaged
and plans to be married
for the first time in June .
Of those who re-
sponded, 80% have
been married only once;
10% have remarried;
2.5% are presently di-
vorced; 5% are single;
2.5% are widows; 2.5%
are presently separ-
ated.
Another fact that I
found very interesting
about the class of 1963,
was that of the gradu-
ates that were married,
all reported that they
had natural children.
One had two adopted
children, as well as a
natural child of her
own. The number of
children per family
ranged from one to five.
All mothers said that
they had good, very
good, excellent, or
marvelous relation-
ships with their chil-
dren. Several did
mention that there had
been an occasional
problem with drugs at
one time, but no serious
problems were men-
tioned.
Concerning edu-
cation beyond MBC,
45% answered that they
had received a master's,
doctorate, or profes-
sional degree. This is
5% higher than the
overall rate for gradu-
ates of Mary Baldwin,
rhe class of 1963 should
be proud. We also pro-
vide leadership on the
Alumnae Board, Board
of Trustees, and in
other areas at Mary
Baldwin.
In many ways the
women who graduated
twenty-five years ago
are at a very important
point in their life cycle.
They are at the zenith of
one stage (that of
having completed the
raising of their children)
and at the brink of the
next state (the empty
nest followed by the ad-
vancement of old age).
They will no longer be
Billy's mother and they
have probably reached
an identity beyond that
of Tom's wife. From the
responses that I re-
ceived I would say that
the majority of the
women of this year's
twenty-fifth reunion
class are very happy in
their identity and are
looking forward to new
horizons and oppor-
tunities in the future.
There will be a freedom
from responsibilities
and an ability to delve
into activities of their
own choosing. Wom-
en's roles are chang-
ing and fewer restric-
tions are placed upon
women by society.
The picture that
emerges is one of tradi-
tional, contented
women who have sur-
vived with dignity the
tempestuous years
since they were born in
the early 1940s. By the
large they have lived or-
derly lives, experi-
encing fulfillment
primarily through per-
sonal relationships. At
the same time, they
want to have oppor-
tunities to pursue their
own interests, becom-
ing increasingly inde-
pendent, consolidating
their individual identi-
ties — all of this while
accomplishing the sep-
arating tasks of letting
children and parents
go-
New attachments
and separations are in-
terwoven in the lives of
these maturing women.
We experience change,
change in life attach-
ments, change in rela-
tionships with children
and parents, change in
friends. We see our par-
ents aging and maybe
the loss of one's par-
ent(s). These changes
are of upmost impor-
tance to women. Our
maturity requires us to
deal with changing at-
tachments and separa-
tions. With these
analyses, 1 feel that each
of us is better able to
deal with changes in
our lives today because
of the experiences and
growth we had at Mary
Baldwin. One graduate
said: "One point I
would like to say is, that
if Mary Baldwin College
helped me with regards
to marriage and par-
enting, I would have to
say that it encouraged
me in my own personal
development so that I
had more to take to each
one."
As we look at the 1963
graduate today, we see
a traditional, content
woman: happy with her
family, job, and happy
with her own identity.
We have orderly lives,
for we have found and
strengthened our
niches in society; valu-
able relationships have
been formed with our
children, husbands, ca-
reers, and friends. We
are now content with
our interests centered
on dealing with letting
our children go and
taking on the responsi-
bility of the aging or
death of our own par-
ents. We are ready to
accept our roles and to
face new challenges in
Brains and
personahty.
North and south all
men agree.
Give a cheer, for the
year, 1, 9, 6, 3."
Twenty five years later,
the class of 1963 of Mary
Baldwin has much to
cheer about.
the future with our me-
mories of MBC as a focal
and integral part of our
lives. The class of 1963
can say;
"Mary Baldwin look
and see.
We're the class of
63,
Give a cheer, give a
shout.
We're the class
you'll hear about.
Commencement and Homecoming
HEADLINES AND BYLINES BY MARY BALDWIN
BY DAIL WILLIS '7 5
live in Chicago and
work for the Chicago
Sun-Times . To my
knowledge, only one
other person on the edi-
torial staff here at-
tended a woman's
college (she is a gradu-
ate of Vassar). Since this
is the Midwest, where
college means the Big
Ten, I frequently find
myself explaining to
someone that I went to
Mary Baldwin College
in Staunton, Virginia,
and yes, it is "all girls."
The reaction is gener-
ally amused disbelief,
with some alleged witti-
cism about how glad I
must have been to get
out. Even women who
are my age on the staff
— those most likely to
remember feminism in
the late 1960s and early
1970s — find it odd that
I wouldn't change my
alma mater even if I
could do it all over
again.
Looking back from
the perspective of 13
years, several cities,
four jobs and a master's
degree from Indiana
University in Blooming-
ton, I think I probably
fared better — educa-
tionally and socially —
than many of my
friends who went to
larger universities.
When I graduated in
1975, 1 had my career all
mapped out: I wanted
to be a set designer on
Broadway. I had the
basics, I was assured by
a theatrical shop mana-
ger for the Asolo Thea-
ter in Florida — but I
needed an M.F. A. Since
my assets at the time
were minimalist — a
motorcycle, boots,
jeans, t-shirts and a cat
— further education
was not an option. And
my parents considered
the theater a fate worse
than death, and were
not about to underwrite
an M.F. A. So I wan-
dered into journalism,
starting as a proof-
reader and moving
fairly quickly into writ-
ing and editing. I had
just realized my first
benefit from Mary Bald-
win; A liberal arts edu-
cation broad enough to
permit a change in di-
rection.
Nor has that proved
to be the only benefit.
Dr. Lott's English litera-
ture classes taught me
to read carefully and
analyze well — a skill
essential for a news-
paper editor. Dr. Fran-
cisco's theater classes
taught me how to find
the nuance in language
— a skill as important to
good copy editing and
writing as to play direc-
tion and set-building.
Having made my way,
line by line, through
some of Shakespeare's
plays with Dr. Smith, I
could quickly divine
what an elderly, semi-
literate reader wanted
to communicate in a let-
ter to the editor. I can
still recall Dr. Smith ad-
monishing a guiltily
silent room: "Ladies! It
is not enough to merely
pass your eyes over the
material! You have to
read it!" The principle
guides headline writing
as well as play reading.
And various tasks in
college dramatic pro-
ductions introduced me
to the fear and adrena-
line a deadline brings,
as well as the satisfac-
tion of meeting one.
My liberal arts edu
cation then, has provec
flexible enough to cove
journalism as well a:
English and dramatic
arts (my majors). Then
have been some direc
applications, too: I occa
sionally write play anc
movie reviews for thi
newspaper, and a spe
cialized knowledge o
drama is useful. And
still recall how excited
was to weave somt
lines of Alexander Pop'
into an editorial year
ago, and later, into
theater review.
One reason I thinl
these lessons took s(
well is that I learnec
them in a small
friendly educational
community. Not onb
do I remember the les
son, but I remember thi
speaker and the setting
That would not be trui
had I been one of a clas
of 800 or more in an au
ditorium, where the lee
turer can be just '
rumor at the back of th^
room.
But there are othe
things I took from Mar
Baldwin, too. Perhap
the most valuable ha
been the confidenc
necessary to compet
successfully in th
workplace. That cam
partly from smal
classes, where ever
student was expected t'
participate. In my casi
it came also from builc
ing sets and hangin
lights and directing co
lege plays. Had I had t
compete for those earl
opportunities wit
men, I almost certain!
would not have eve
tried. Carrying the twi
burdens of perfectior
ism and shyness.
would not have been
willing to learn carpen-
try in front of some
male college student
who already knew how
to hammer a nail with-
out bending it, or cut a
straight Line with a skil-
saw. Watching diminu-
tive Susan Thorn Marr
(MBC '73) doing stage
carpentry capably was
intimidating — but I fig-
ured if she could do it, I
could too. And 1 did,
although perhaps not
quite as well.
Nonetheless, I had
conquered a forbidding
obstacle: tackling a
"male" job that I wasn't
sure 1 knew how to do.
That really came in
handy later; when I en-
tered journalism, many
women in newsroom
management were still
confined to the "society
page." And I was the
first woman (and at
least 30 years younger
than my colleagues) on
the Sarasota paper's
editorial page staff,
where I landed after
my first promotion.
(Women are faring bet-
ter in newsrooms these
days, although the
number of women in
top jobs is still too low.)
Not every student is
as shy or perfectionist
as I was. But I'd guess
many benefit from
learning competitive
skills in a somewhat
sheltered environment.
When I first entered
Indiana University, and
went to class registra-
tion, I could not believe
my eyes. There were
12,000 other people
there, too. No kidding
— the entire campus of
35,000 or so is divided
into thirds and registra-
tion lasts three days,
one day for each third.
It was easy to pick out
the freshmen — many
of them had their
mothers with them to
help them survive the
rigors of registration.
Watching them, I re-
membered my own first
days at Mary Baldwin's
campus — learning my
way around the dorm
and the school, meeting
my roommate, Nita
Carlson Enoch (MBC
'75) and starting a
friendship with her that
has spanned moves, job
changes, geographic
barriers, marriage and
all of the tests of grow-
ing up. In a freshman
class of less than 200, in
a coUege of 800, it was
easier to be a freshman.
At lU, new students
must almost instantly
become competitive
and conversant with a
large insdtution. At 30,
when I returned to
school, I not only man-
aged but loved it. At 17,
I don't think I could
have coped.
When I talk to those
who received an under-
graduate education at
schools larger than
Mary Baldwin, I won-
der if they missed out
on one of its most spe-
cial gifts: friendship
that lasts. Not long ago,
Nita called me to say
that Lucy Lewis (MBC
'75) had joined Conti-
nental Bank in Chicago.
I hadn't seen her in
years — but when we
got together shortly
after that for dinner, it
was as if we'd seen each
other yesterday. I know
that if 1 visit New Or-
leans, I can call Debby
Moench (MBC '75) and
we'll have lots to talk
about; or Harriet Mar-
row Neldon (MBC '75)
in Washington; or Mar-
garet McGeorge (MBC
'75) in Richmond . . . the
list is long. I wouldn't
trade those ties for any-
thing.
Maybe the class of '75
at Mary Baldwin was
special? Certainly, our
10-year reunion was —
the participation was
tremendous. It was
wonderful to see every-
one again, and to real-
ize that Nita, Lucy,
Harriet, Debby, Mar-
garet and I are part of a
group that "years can-
not wither nor custom
stale." Others may
question the benefits of
women's colleges, but if
I have a daughter I hope
she will choose Mary
Baldwin. Even in the
unlikely event that
women have achieved
full economic equality
by then, she'U still need
the benefits of a solid
education, and the nur-
turing and time to ab-
sorb it, that Mary
Baldwin gave to me.
Dail Willis is a deputy fea-
tures editor at the Chicago
Sun-Times.
Q^ictarian^ girlhood
By Cynthia H. Tyson
he 20th century turned and
Queen Victoria died some years
before my girlhood began, at
least in strict chronological cal-
culations. But in special and be-
loved pockets of England time
passes gently, and change is
slow to come; and Victorian memories fill the girlhood
recollections of years spent in a post- Victorian, but
nevertheless solidly Victorian milieu.
Mostly I think of my great-aunt's house. A lot of my
growing up happened there in a setting that re-
sounded with safety and solidity. If you have seen
museum models of prosperous middle-class Victorian
parlors, you recognize the image: sumptuous with
paraphernalia, rich with furnishings, heavy with pos-
sessions of vast varieties on tables, on mantlepieces, in
cabinets, on walls, on shelves, in profusion . . . , a
wealth to jostle the mind and to fill long, exploring
hours. The rainy-day boredom of childhood was im-
possible in such a setting.
I recall so well forays into the china cabinet: com-
memorative plates and cups and saucers, memories of
the Golden Jubilee in 1887 and Diamond Jubilee in
1897, the self-conscious sharing of a social experience,
typically Victorian, and to be relived each time one
traced the patterns of the fine bone china.
And hand cut glass pin boxes with solid silver lids,
small enough to fit into a doll's house. I learned the
hallmarks then and still know to seek the stamp of the
young Queen or the aging Matriarch among those
other marks of place and craftsman. A silver thimble
nestled on scarlet silk inside an intricately patterned
metal egg, a memory of Easter long ago; cheese dishes
for wedges of enormous size; bronzed and gleaming
pots for butter and for cream — how rich they'd look in
such receptacles — and with them all a tale of family or
friends to seal the pleasure of this comfort and pros-
perity.
Mine is a memory of rural England, too, a Thomas
Hardy setting of haystacks, corn stocks, and worried
glances at the sky in case the rains should come. It was
a summer joy to ride behind the shire horses on great
piles of straw, to picnic in the fields, to toss the hay, to
wield enormous forks with tines shiny from genera-
tions of uninterrupted use. Those dusty, dusty days
alive with insects and scampering field n:\ice and gay
kerchiefs for the neck and hair, and food that cannot
ever taste as good in any other place.
But from one Victorian world it is so easy to slip into
another. To sup with Hardy in the shade of a straw
stack is to savor crusty bread and cheese and beer. To
picnic in my mother's style was in the manner of a
Henry James. For these were grand occasions when
family and friends sallied forth with many trappings
to a preplanned country setting. And with them came
the roasts of game and beef, tureens of vegetables,
trifle, strawberries and cream, and wine. The linen
cloths were spread, and all the necessities of dining-
room formality took up appointed place in a rural
glade. And the joy of it was great, the sense of seemli-
ness, and propriety, and the appropriateness of
domesticity.
. . . and into yet another: a world 1 did not know in
childhood but could imagine. And in later years I saw
those grimy, terraced, one-up, one-down, industrial-
revolution houses. And all that I had read in Dickens
or Charles Kingsley took form and shape in the dour
industrial towns of the north. The general effects of
Victorian industrialization are still there: the mills,
many now disused, with sad-faced houses cowering
in their shadows, stern reminders of the social up-
heaval, the deprivation of some, the vast wealth of
others, the breakdown of former traditions of order,
the exploitation, human suffering, degradation, and
want — spectres of a Victorian England disquieting to
recall. The debates on social and political issues in-
spired by the work of a Godwin, a Bentham, an Owen,
a Burke are surely still with us; that brought Victoria's
England to its pinnacle of power, looking back we
understand why.
But it's more comforting to return in thought to rural
England, to the gold and copper fields of wheat and
barley, the bronze and yellowing tan of rye and oats,
the poppies, and the cornflowers; or to the civilized
life of house parties and long weekends with crino-
lines, elegant gentlemen, and hansom cabs.
The literary focus of my girlhood had also a Victo-
rian bias. What English schoolgirl is not brought up on
Dickens and the Brontes! But in a household where
poetry was much loved, I was steeped in Tennyson,
the Brownings, and Matthew Arnold. Even now, if
you asked me to name the Poet Laureate, I'd probably
say Tennyson. He had a special place, in that he was
born and lived in Lincolnshire, and his native sur-
roundings were mine, too. It's flat country and on the
coast — remember his "High Tide on the Coast of
Lincolnshire" — and remains predominantly rural.
Myriads of rivulets really do run through the lawns
after heavy rain, and doves still moan in immemorial
elms; the innumerable bees of summer still murmur.
They did in my girlhood, and they did in Victoria's,
too.
When Victoria was sixteen she wrote in her diary, "I
love to be employed; I hate to be idle." These words
were the motto of her life and the lives of many, both
in her time and mine. Perhaps it's this kind of ethic
that stays with one long after the pictorial memories
have begun to fade. Her devotion to duty and the aura
about her of womanly wisdom and goodness slipped
so very naturally and easily as the worthy aspirations
of life from her generation to mine, from a great-aunt,
through a mother, to me. That's the real key to my
Victorian world; and it provides, too, a sense of
vibrant optimism about life, a feehng that there is
inspiration, if one looks hard enough, even in the
weary despondency of the 20th century.
Copyright © 1981 by Mint
Museum Art. First appeared
in the Mint Museum An-
tiques Show, 1981. Re-
printed by permission.
Facsmiiles of drawings by Au-
brey Beardsley, 1 9 tn century
English artist.
ALUMNAE
NEWS
Anita Thee Graham '50
Strengthening Ties
Strengthening the ties between alumnae and
the College is the main goal of the new Presi-
dent of the Alumnae Board, Anita Thee Gra-
ham '50.
A wife, mother and grandmother, Anita, is a dedi-
cated volunteer in her community and to Mary Bald-
win College. Anita was elected to serve as President
of the Mary Baldwin College Alumnae Board for a
two year term beginning July 1 , 1 988 at the National
Alumnae Association meeting.
"My main goal is to help the alumnae see how
important they are to Mary Baldwin College," Anita
said. "Mary Baldwin College is an exciting place, so
many things are going on and I want to show the
alumnae that it is a place that is worthy of their time,
talent or treasures."
Other goals Anita has ore to increase alumnae
participation in chapter development, admissions
referrals, nominations for awards, support of the
Virginia Sampler, annual giving, and service to the
volunteer boards of the College.
Anita has been involved with the College ever since
she left school, first through the Columbia Alumnae
Chapter, where she has been an active supporter and
served as President in the early 1960's, by attending
her class reunions, and now in a much more active
capacity as a member of the Alumnae Board.
Anita has been on the Alumnae Board since 1983 as
a member-at-large. Chairman of the Nominating
Committee, and for the last two years as First Vice-
President.
Anita lives in Columbia, South Carolina where she
is a realtor and an active member of her community.
In addition to her professional activities she has been
active in civic and church affairs. She has been a
Sunday school teacher, Bible teacher, member of the
Vestry and President of the Women in her church. She
has also been active in the Museum of Art, the Colum-
bia Zoological Society, the Women's Symphony Asso-
ciation and worked as a docent at the Columbia
Museum of Art.
Not only do her volunteer and professional duties
keep her busy, but so do her two children and four
grandchildren. "I have been blessed to have both my
son and daughter stay in Columbia and am close to
both of them and my wonderful grandchildren."
In addition to enjoying family gatherings, Anita
also has enjoyed maintaining the ties with her Mary
Baldwin family. One way she has done this is through
her class reunions.
Anita feels that reunions are a great tool to reach
alumnae. "I hope to encourage alumnae to become
more involved in Mary Baldwin and I think the easiest
way to get involved is to come back for a reunion,"
Anita said. In fact, Anita's 30th reunion was how Anita
became more involved with Mary Baldwin and ended
up on the Alumnae Board.
Anita returned to Staunton in 1980 for her 30th
reunion and after being a loyal supporter for many
years of Mary Baldwin College, was nominated
shortly thereafter for the Alumnae Board.
Anita has enjoyed her years on the Alumnae Board
and is looking forward to serving for the next two as
President. She credits President Cynthia H. Tyson as a
big part of the success she has seen at the College and
for her own involvement.
"Certainly Dr. Tyson is a big reason that I am
serving as President, Her presence is a huge part of
the excitement on campus and I am pleased to be able
to work with her to further Mary Baldwin College,"
said Anita.
"I also really enjoy working with the Alumnae Of-
fice staff. They are so supportive and capable," she
said.
In her rare moments of spare time, Anita enjoys
doing needlework, reading, and studying the Bible.
Anita says that in addition to the sense of accom-
plishment she feels by being a part of the Alumnae
Board, she has also enjoyed getting to know a large
group of alumnae that she would not have met
otherwise.
"The spirit of community is great on the Alumnae
Board. I have met alumnae of all ages from different
areas of the country. I have made friends that will last
the rest of my life," she said.
"I see my biggest challenge as President of the
Alumnae Board as encouraging every alumna who is
active to reach out to just one other alumna in her
area. This alone would double our participation. I
think this is an attainable challenge, and I'm looking
forward to meeting it head on."
Enjoy the Special Benefits of
MasterCard Through MBC
The Alumnae Association announces a special new
service, the Mary Baldwin MasterCard.
Through a special arrangement with Sovran Bank,
you can now have a Mary Baldwin MasterCard. The
cord has been exclusively designed for the Mary
Baldwin Alumnae Association and offers some very
special benefits.
There will be no membership fee for the first year
and in subsequent years, it is only SI 8.00 annually.
The Mary Baldwin MasterCard also has a low
variable interest rate, which is currently 16.25%.
This competitive rate is much less than what is
chorged by many other credit cards. The minimum
credit line available is $1 ,500. Of course, applicants
must meet the credit qualifications established by
Sovran.
"The Finance Committee of the Alumnae Board did
great deal of research on this project. We reviewed
numerous bank
proposals, and
we feel Sovran
had the best
program for Mary
Baldwin," said Meg Ivy
Crews '74, Vice President of Finance.
The MasterCard also presents a new way for alum-
nae to help Mary Baldwin. Use of the Mary Baldwin
MasterCard will help enhance the visibility of the
College. In addition, the Alumnae Association bene-
fits each time you make a purchase using the Mary
Baldwin MasterCard.
"I encourage all alumnae to take advantage of this
special new program, that benefits both them and the
Alumnae Association," commented Meg.
A detailed mailing about the Mary Baldwin Master-
Card will be sent to all alumnae.
Admissions Through Alumnae Action
Students ore our lifeline, without them Mary
Baldwin would be like a masterpiece of art in
a closed gallery. A brilliant medium in which
to explore life and see ourselves, made
meaningless as it hung unseen. Our students are our
audience — they absorb us, challenge us, and compel
us to remain vibrant.
Where do our students come from? How do they
begin their journey with us at Mary Baldwin College?
For most, the journey from the security of their homes,
family, and friends to this campus, proudly illuminat-
ing the landscape of a most cherished Virginian com-
munity, is a complicated one. Our students journey
from over 23 states and 139 high schools across the
nation. Their backgrounds are diverse, their needs
unique, yetthey are united by a common goal — to find
the environment that will allow them to explore their
interests, develop their character, experience chal-
lenge and carve opportunities.
We know well the marvelous professional job done
day by day and mile by mile by our admissions staff,
championed through the unending enthusiasm and
polished skills of Elaine Liles, our Executive Director
of Admissions. Yet beyond that contact professionally
designed and personally carried out, is a sphere of
influence only the ALUMNAE OF MARY BALDWIN
COLLEGE hold in their grasp. The alumnae alone
possess a history, a connection, an honest appraisal
of life as a Mary Baldwin student that needs to be
shared with our prospective student. What greater
gift could you give to a student than to help her
confidently choose Mary Baldwin College as the
springboard for her future. For many students the
contact made by an alumna is the turning point in
college choice. BE THAT TURNING POINT in a
woman's life. Refer a student. Contact your chapter
or the Alumnae Office and offer your help. Use your
Mary Baldwin Connection.
Marie W. Bream '82, Vice President
Alumnae Admissions
Fall Leadership Conference
October 6 - 9
Meetings of the Alumnae Board, Parents
Council and Advisory Board of Visitors
Workshops for Chapter Leaders,
Admissions Representatives, Class Fund
Representatives, and Class Reunion
Planning Committees
Mark the dates and plan to join us for a
weekend of learning, working, and fun!
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Twelve new members-at-large and five offic-
ers were elected to the Alumnae Association
Board of Directors at its annual meeting May
21. The new members-at-large represent 8
states and 12 classes.
Sally Armstrong Bingley '60, of Richmond, Virginia,
is a commercial property underwriter with Aetna Life
and Casualty. She is a member of Emmanuel Epis-
copal Church, Old Dominion Women's Club, and
Valentine's Women's Club. Sally was co-chairman of
her class's 20th reunion celebration, she served as a
fund raiser for the Doff in Fund during her class's 25th
reunion, and is a former treasurer of the Richmond
Alumnae Chapter. Sally will serve as a member of the
Nominating Committee.
Sally Dorsey Danner '64 of Atlanta, Georgia, is an
interior designer and public relations consultant. The
mother of two sons, Sally serves as the recording
secretary for the International Furnishing and Design
Association. She serves on the Executive Committee
of the Atlanta College of Art, Friends of Piedmont
Hospital, Board of the Ruth Mitchell Dance Company,
and the Cobb County Democratic Convention Task
Force. She has served as chairman of the Beaux Arts
Ball, a benefit for the Atlanta College of Art, since
1984. Solly will serve as a member of the Chapter
Development Committee of the Alumnae Board.
Kathy Myers Faust '67 of Raleigh, North Carolina,
is the mother of five children. Kathy helped to estab-
lish the NOW chapter in Jackson, Tennessee, is a
member of White Memorial Presbyterian Church, and
has helped establish Crisis Centers in two localities.
Kathy and her husband, Roy, have recently estab-
lished a catering service. Kathy will serve as a mem-
ber of the Homecoming Planning Committee.
Linda Martin Graybill '83 of Lookout Mountain,
Tennessee, is an internal auditor with Eriander Medi-
cal Center in Chattanooga. A former chairman of the
Richmond Alumnae Chapter, Linda is a member of
the Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church, a mem-
ber of the church choir and of Amnesty International.
She will serve as a member of the Finance Committee.
Susan Johnson High '62 of Maple Glen, Pennsylva-
nia, describes herself as a professional volunteer.
The mother of three children, she is a past president of
the Women's Board of Abington Memorial Hospital,
and president and founder of the Upper Dublin
Middle School P.T.A. A member of the Abingdon
Presbyterian Church, she has served on the Board of
Deacons and as a Trustee. Susan will serve as a
member of the Annual Giving Committee.
Mary Jim Moore Quillen '72
A Glimpse
of the Future!
Betsy Newman Mason '69 of Norfolk, Virginia, is
vice-president and manager of the Peninsula office of
Goodman, Segor, Hogan, a commercial real estate
agency. She is a member of the Virginia C.C.l.M.
Chapter and currently serves as treasurer. She is a
former president of the Children's Hospital Circle, the:
Junior League, has been an active volunteer for the
United Way, the Chrysler Museum Capital Com-j
paign, and the Eastern Virginia Medical School;
Capital Campaign. Betsy and her husband, Norman,'
have two daughters. Betsy will serve as a member of
the Finance Committee.
Suzie Maxson-Maltz '75 of Scarsdale, New York, is
the mother of two children. She chaired the Class of
1975's 10th Reunion Celebration and has been an;
active member of the New York Alumnae Chapter,^
doing a great deal of work in the area of Admissions.
Suzie will serve as a member of the Admissions
Committee.
From Birmingham, Alabama, Mary Jim Moore
Quillen '72 is a former teacher and mother of three.
She is a member of the Independent Presbyterian
Church and also serves as secretary for the E.P.I.CJ
School P.T.O. Mary Jim will serve as a member of the'
Admissions Committee.
Jonie Huske Satterfield '70 of Richmond, Virginia,
works as a programmer analyst for Blue Cross and
Blue Shield. A mother of two, Janie has been a most
active member of the Richmond Alumnae Chapter
serving as a member of its board and as treasurer of
the Chapter. Janie will serve as a member of the
Annual Giving Committee.
Cynthia Knight Wier '68
Kate Gladden Schultz 71
Through the
New Board
Kate Gladden Schultz '71 of Winchester, Virginia,
served as chairman for her class's 15th Reunion, has
been an Admissions Rep for the College, and was the
guest speaker at a Reunion Committee Training
Workshop during the Fall Leadership Conference.
The mother of two, Kate is a former member of the
Preservation of Historic Winchester. She is a member
of Sacred Heart Church, member of the Shenandoah
Apple Blossom Festival Committee, and works as a
regular volunteer in the school and public library,
helping to illustrate a monthly newsletter. Kate will
serve as a member of the Homecoming Committee.
Anne Sims Smith '45 of Staunton, Virginia, served
as chairman of the Staunton Chapter and currently is
\he co-chair of the Social Committee for the Chapter
and chair of the Furnishings Committee for the Staun-
ton Room in the Alumnae House. She is a post board
nember of Historic Staunton, the Hospital Auxiliary,
and past president of the Augusta Garden Club. She
is o member of the Trinity Episcopal Church Alter
Guild and a former chairman of the Women of the
Church. Anne currently serves as a member of the
Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace
Foundation. The mother of three grown children,
^nne will serve as a member of the Admissions Com-
mittee.
Cynthia Knight Wier '68 of Houston, Texas, has
served as chairman of the Houston Alumnae Chapter
and has been actively involved with the recruitment of
students from the Houston area. The mother of two,
Cynthia is a freelance writer and will serve as a
member of the Admissions Committee.
Newly elected officers of the Alumnae Board are:
Anita Thee Graham '50, President (see related story
page 18); Barbara Knisely Roberts '73, First Vice-
President, Ray Castles Uttenhove '68, Vice-President
of Annual Giving; and JoAnne Reich '87, Vice-Presi-
dent for Finance.
Recently appointed Committee Chairmen of the
Alumnae Board will be: Martha McMullan Aasen '51 ,
Homecoming Committee; Emily Dethloff Ryan '63,
Continuing Education Committee; and Lindsay
Ryland Gouldthorpe '73, Nominating Committee.
Barbara Knisely Roberts '73 has been a member of
the Alumnae Board since 1985. She has served as a
member and chairman of the Homecoming Activities
Committee. From Burlington, North Carolina, she and
her husband, John, operate a chain of Wendy's
restaurants. They have two children,
Roy Castles Uttenhove '68 of Atlanta, Georgia, will
serve as Vice-President for Annual Giving. Roy has
been an active member of the Atlanta Alumnae
Chapter and has served as a member of Annual
Giving Committee on the Alumnae Board for the past
three years. Roy is a commercial real estate agent
with Caldwell Banker Commercial.
JoAnne Reich '88 will serve as Vice-President for
the Finance Committee. JoAnne has served as a stu-
dent representative to the Alumnae Board for three
years, and in that position, as chairman of the Student
Relations Committee, and as a member of the Execu-
tive Committee for one year. JoAnne is working as a
volunteer for the United Methodist Church in Cedar-
town, Georgia.
Martha McMullan Aasen '51 of Westport, Connec-
ticut, will serve as chairman of the Homecoming
Activities Committee. Martha has been a member of
this committee for one year and works as a Liaison
Officer for the United Nations.
Emily Dethloff Ryan '63 of Houston, Texas, will
serve as chairman of the Continuing Education Com-
mittee. Emily was elected to the Alumnae Board in
1 987 and has served as a member of the Continuing
Education Committee for one year. A former chair-
man of the Houston Alumnae Chapter, Emily con-
tinues to be active with the chapter, particularly in the
area of student recruitment.
Lindsay Ryland Gouldthorpe '73 of Mechanicsville,
Virginia, is former President of the Notional Alumnae
Association and will serve a one year term as chair-
man of the Nominating Committee. Lindsay is an
Assistant Vice President with Sovran Bank in Rich-
mond, Virginia.
Ray Castles Uttenhove '6
Barbara Knisely Roberts '73
Martha McMullan Aasen '51
Emily Dethloff Ryan '63
Lindsay Ryland Gouldthorpe '73
Entertaining, Celebrating,
T.
.he 1988 awards recipients are those alumnae who have
achieved exceptional accomplishments and have shown dedi-
cation to the ideals for which Mary Baldwin College stands.
They have all shown to the world the value of a Mary Baldwin
College liberal arts education and their work is of such value
that they make all alumnae of the College proud to share their
alumna status with them.
Emily Smith Medallion
The Emily Smith Medallion honors alumnae who
have made outstanding contributions to their com-
munity, church, the College, and the Commonwealth
of Virginia. The enthusiasm and devotion of Margaret
Herscher Hitchman '40 is exemplary of energy and
generosity focused to serve others.
Peggy has demonstrated dedication to her com-
munity through volunteer nursing and library service.
By serving her country through the United States
Navy, she has demonstrated patriotism in the most
respected way which is through action. She is a
devout Presbyterian and a member of United Church
Women where she has brought honor to the Presbyte-
rian heritage of Mary Baldwin College.
She has shown devotion to the College by serving
faithfully as Alumna Trustee on the Mary Baldwin
College Board of Trustees from 1978 to 1988. And,
she has given of her resources and time in support of
the College by serving as President of her Charleston,
West Virginia, alumnae chapter, and serving on the
National Alumnae Board of Directors from 1951 to
1954.
Not only has Peggy worked to improve the world
today, she has also established the Herscher Scholar-
ship Fund in honor of her parents for students of the
future.
The Emily Smith Medallion Citation is awarded to
Peggy for her dedication and involvement in every
aspect of her community and for her continued sup-
port of Mary Baldwin College.
Top, Peggy Herscher
Hitchman 40 accepts the
Emily Smith Medallion.
Top center, Mopsy Pool
Page '48 holds the crystal
apple presented to her
for the Emily Kelly Leader-
ship Av/ara. Top right,
Louise Rossett McNamee
'70, recipient of the
Career Achievement
Award. Bottom left. The
Alumnae Choir per-
formed at the Saturday
dinner and chapel
service under the
direction of Gordon
Page.
Emily Wirsing Kelly
Eeadership Award
Established in 1986 by the Alumnae Association
and the Class of 1963, the Emily Wirsing Kelly Leader-
ship Award honors those alumnae who hove demon-
strated outstanding service and excellence in
leadership on behalf of Mary Baldwin College.
Mopsy Pool Page '48, the recipient of this year'd
Emily Wirsing Kelly Leadership Award, is on alumna
who for 40 years has fulfilled the criteria for selection
with distinction. She worked for the College as ar I
employee in the 1 960s, including service as Presiden .
Spencer's administrative assistant; moreover, she ha;
logged many volunteer hours through the Alumnae
Association. For seven years Mopsy served on the ,
Alumnae Board of Directors, two as President of the
Uniting at Homecoming
Association; and she has been active in chapters in
Winston-Salem and Staunton, providing laudatory
leadership by heading the Staunton alumnae fund
drive in support of the College's purchase of Staunton
Military Academy.
Mopsy continues to be active in the Staunton chap-
ter, serving as Social Committee Chairman since 1 986
and as Chairman of the chapter for the coming year.
Above and beyond the normal expectations of the
committed volunteer, she, with her husband Gordon,
has hosted scores of Mary Baldwin students in her
home for many years, served as sponsor to numerous
classes, choir parent, and "adopted parent" through
Trinity Episcopal Church. Additionally, she is active in
her community through the Augusta Garden Club and
the Historic Staunton Foundation.
Career Achievement Award
Established this year by the Alumnae Association
Board of Directors, the Career Achievement Award
honors an alumna who has brought respect to herself
and the College through extraordinary career
achievement. Louise Rossett McNamee '70, the 1 988
recipient has accomplished goals beyond even the
highest expectations.
Louise has been featured in Advertising Age, For-
tune Magazine, and Business Month for her accom-
plishments which include reaching the highest
position. President and Chief Executive Officer, of
Delia Femina, a leading advertising agency. She
joined the agency in 1979 as vice president and re-
search director and became a senior vice president
by the end of that year. In 1984, she became acting
president and chief executive officer and was later
named president and CEO.
An English major at Mary Baldwin College, Louise
shows the opportunities for success which begin with
a liberal arts education, and she is an inspiration to
all the students and alumnae of the College. And in
her career, she has not forgotten her roots at Mary
Baldwin. Louise has been a part of the visiting CEO
program and was the 1 985 Commencement Speaker.
Service to Church Award
The Service to Church Award was established this
year by the Alumnae Association Board of Directors
to honor an alumna who has shown devotion to the
Church not only for personal fulfillment but also for
serving others.
Charlotte Tilley Sorrell '46 has always given wholly
to those causes and people who needed her. An
example of this dedication is her work as chairman of
a committee to build the Village Chapel of Bald Head.
Bald Head Island, accessible only by boat, is a com-
munity of about 300 second homes. For this commun-
ity, Charlotte accepted the responsibility for the
Top, The spirit of the
Class of '33 showed as
they sported canes and
crutches during the
Parade of Classes.
Boitom left, Charlotte
Tilley Sorrell '46 accepts
the Service to Church
Award from Anita Thee
Graham '50, First Vice-
President. Bottom right,
Lindsay Ryland Gould-
thorpe '73 congratulates
Martha S. Grafton on
being elected an hon-
orary alumna of the
College.
Top, Barbara Knisely
Roberts '73, Home-
coming Plonning
Chairman hugs Margie
Nea Woodson '63,
Homecoming Queen, as
Gale Palmer '63, Class
Chairman, looks on. The
Class of '63 had the
largest number of alum-
nae on campus for their
25th Reunion. Center,
Amine Cosby Kellom '35,
Service to Community
Award recipient, with
President Cynthia H.
Tyson. Bottom, Alumnae
of the Adult Degree
Program celebrate
the program's 10th
onniversory.
building of this Chapel, and she raised the money in
pledges to fund it. The Village Chapel has brought an
immeasurable spirit of fellowship and cohesiveness
to those who make up this island community. She has
also been a teacher of Adult Sunday School for in-
numerable years and has been a source of strength
for the Watts Street Baptist Church in Durham, North
Carolina.
Charlotte has shown tremendous support to her
community through her position as a member of the
Board of Directors of the United Way of Durham, and
as Head of their Personal Gifts Division. With her
empathy and everlasting kindness, she led in orga-
nizing the local Meols-on-Wheels program, and
helped to deliver meals afterthe program was imple-
mented.
She knows well the value of a Mary Baldwin edu-
cation for both her daughters are also Mary Baldwin
alumnae. Charlotte has continually supported the
College as a class agent and has assisted in recruiting
many students.
In keeping with the spirit of the College's traditional
Presbyterian heritage, this award is offered to Char-
lotte who enthusiastically gives support wherever it's
needed.
Service to Community
Amine Cosby Kellam '35, this year's Service to
Community Award recipient, is an alumna who has
greatly contributed to the civic and community con-
cerns throughout the Commonwealth and in other
parts of the country as well, and has graciously of-
fered her time and talent to the improvement of her
community.
Amine's interest in cleaning up Virginia has been
the catalyst to the development of many programs in
the Commonwealth today. She has succeeded in ar-
ranging an effective sanitary landfill system in the
rural Eastern Shore area. To accomplish tremendous
tasks in beautification, she tapped innovative forces
such as the Department of the Army from Fort Eustis
which successfully recycled old automobiles to earn
over $100,000 for two Virginia counties. Amine also
worked with Senator William Fears to introduce and
pass a bill which gave cash bounty to the county for
every recycled car. More than $26 million has been
netted from this bill to this date.
Knowing that one cannot truly achieve lasting suc-
cess without educating the young. Amine introduced
a five-year beautification program within 21 schools
and held an awards program to honor those who
have worked hard for the community.
Amine has worked for twenfy years toward the
beautification of Virginia, and she freely has given
more than 15,000 volunteer hours to this cause. She
has served on numerous committees and has won
many awards for her accomplishments.
For her devotion to the beautification of the Com-
monwealth and for the exceptional accomplishments
and dedication to the ideals for which Mary Baldwin
College stands, the Service to Community Award was
presented to Amine.
CHAPTERS IN
ACTION
Arkansas
Patty Joe Mahony Montgomery '37 held a luncheon
in El Dorado for area alumnae with Carroll Oliver
Roach '84, Director of Chapter Development in
March. Later that evening, Pom Stephens Rose '82
hosted an alumnae cocktail party honoring Dr. Cyn-
thia H. Tyson, President, at her home in Little Rock.
Atlanta
Pam Stephens Rose '82, Lisa Rowland Whitbeck '70,
Olivia Rogers Guggenheim '61 and Dole Gatchell Webb
'65 at an Arkansas alumnae party at Pam's in Little Rock.
South Arkansas Alumnae, Anne Hancock Teresa '70,
Sara Miller Richardson '60, Pom Stephens Rose '82,
Kathryn Hatley Young '52, Caroline Craig Jacobs '85,
Mollie Benson Buckley '34, Potty Joe Monony
Montgomery '37, and Mary Jane Gray Richardson '52
attend a luncheon hosted by Patty Joe in El Dorado.
The Atlanta Alumnae Chapter hosted a Faculty
Forum recently wlih Bob Lafleur, History Professor as
the guest speaker. Professor Lafleur spoke about
"Change in Russia" at a cocktail party hosted by
Robin Wilson Leo '66, and on "You Are What You
Eat" at a luncheon at the Piedmont Driving Club,
sponsored by Lee Rooker '85. Also attending was
Maureen Kelley, Director of the Annual Fund.
Austin
The Austin area alumnae held a luncheon at the
Westwood Country Club in April with faculty speaker
Dr. Patricia H. Menk, Historian in Residence. Nancy
Smith Norvell '64 organized the event. Also repre-
senting the College was Carroll Oliver Roach '84,
Director of Chapter Development.
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Nan Bruen Kluckoper '23, Nancy Smith Norvell '64, Pat
Menk, Betty Hughes Walton '65 visit after the Austin
Alumnae luncheon at the Westwood Country Club.
Baltimore
The Baltimore Alumnae Chapter held a steering
committee meeting at the home of Michelle Howard
'81 , co-chairman, in February to discuss a June picnic
and other chapter plans.
Beckley, West Virginia
Carolyn McClure Turner '83 hosted an applicant
party at her home with Virginia Irvine, Assistant
Director of Admissions in April.
Enjoying the beautiful weather for the Charlottesville
Alumnae chapter's spring picnic were Katherine Adams,
former parent, Ginny Ragsdale '82, Sallie Adams '82 and
John and Grace Rice.
Buena Vista
Lee Johnston Foster '75 hosted an alumnae and
applicant dessert in her home with Virginia Irvine and
Katherine Lichtenberg, Director of Alumnae Admis-
sions in early April.
Columbia
The Columbia Alumnae Chapter participated in
Commonwealth Day IV in May. Ellen Moss Westfall
'67 chairman helped organize the event.
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Buena Vista, Va., alumnae Elizabeth Knight Glass '28 and
Laurie Byers Armstrong '86, and Ginny Hess, ABV
member, ottended a dessert party for applicants.
Charlottesville
The Charlottesville Alumnae Chapter held a picnic
at the home of Mary Hotchkiss Leavell '73 in April
with Dr. John T. Rice, Vice President of Institutional
Advancement and Carroll Oliver Roach '84, Director
of Chapter Development. Anne North Howard '75,
chapter chairman organized the event.
Corpus Christi
Cecile Cage Wavell '45 hosted an alumnae gath-
ering in her home with Dr. Patricia Menk and Carroll
Oliver Roach '84 as special guests.
Lynn Yates, former parent, Judith Yates Tor '68 and
Cecile Cage Wavell '45 at the Corpus Christi Alumnae
party at Cecile's home.
Dallas
The Dallas Alumnae Chapter hosted an applicant
party with Audi Bondurant Barlow '85, Assistant
Director of Admissions, in early March at the home of
Valerie Lund Mitchell '74, Chairman.
In April they hosted a Faculty Forum with Dr. Menk
at the home of Hollon Meadors Otte '75. Dr. Menk's
topic was "Writing the History of Mary Baldwin Col-
lege." Also attending from the College were Carroll
Oliver Roach '84 and Maureen Kelley.
Peggy Anderson Carr '67 and Shannon Greene Mitchell
'5/ enjoy the Faculty Speaker at the home of Hoolon
Meodors Otte '75 in Dallas.
Danville
A Danville Area Alumnae reception was held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. London Wyott Jr. in March with
Dr. Cynthia H. Tyson and Elaine Liles, Executive
Director of Admissions. Susan Thompson Hoffman
'64, Trustee, helped organize this event.
Houston
The Houston Alumnae Chapter held a luncheon
and fashion show at H.H.M., a shop owned by Harriet
Hart McGuffin '62 in early March.
In April, they hosted a Faculty Forum with Dr. Menk
at the Briar Club. Jo O'Neal Brueggemon '80 and
Cynthia Knight Weir '68 organized the event. Also
representing the College were Maureen Kelley and
Carroll Oliver Roach '84.
Houston alumna, Emily Dethloff Ryan '63 and husband,
Tom, visit with Maureen Kelley at the Briar Club in
Houston.
Greensboro
The Greensboro Area Alumnae attended an alum-
nae luncheon at the Greensboro Country Club in
April with Dr. John T. Rice. Barbara Knisely Roberts
'73 and Virginia Hays Forrest '40 organized this
event. Also in attendance was Carroll Oliver Roach
Lewisburg, West Virginia
An applicant parfy was held in the home of Kath-
erine Yorid '83 with Virginia Irvine and Jane Korne-
gay '83, Associate Director of Admissions in early
May.
Attending the Greensboro Alumnae luncheon are Carroll
Oliver Roach '84, Barbara Knisely Roberts '73, Dr. John
Rice, Virginia Hayes Forrest '40, Anne Hayes Brewer '42,
Donna Neudorfer Earp '76 and Betty Barker Eraser '49.
Madrid
Alumnae in Spain met with current students in May
term at the home of Barbara Penick Jimenez De
Diego '68 with Professor Barbara Ely.
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Memphis
Memphis alumnae held a cocktail party with Car-
roll Oliver Roach '84 at the home of Terre Solmon
Sullivant 74 in March. Charlotte Jackson Lunsford
'51 , Trustee, spoke. Lucie May Thompson '73 helped
organize the event which included applicants.
Ogden, Utah
Utoh alumnae and friends attended a party in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. John Hinckley (Anne Holman
'34) with Dr. Cynthia H. Tyson in early May.
Terre Salmon Sullivant '74, J. Rogers Hall, trustee, and
Lucie May Thompson '73 enjoy themselves at the
Memphis Alumnae party at Terre's home.
New York
The New York Alumnae Chapter hosted a spring
brunch at the home of Catherine Jolley Kerr '80, with
Sarah Griffin '86, chairman, and Carolyn Smith '86,
co-chairman as organizers.
Northern Virginia
The Northern Virginia Alumnae Chapter hosted a
cocktail party in early May with Dr. Cynthia H. Tyson,
and Carroll Oliver Roach '84, at the Washington Golf
and Country Club. Kim Baker Glenn '79, chairman,
organized this event.
The chapter also sponsored a reception for the
Mary Baldwin College Choir, after their concert at
Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church in March. They
also participated in the annual "Party in the Park"
held for Virginia Colleges.
Peninsula
The Peninsula Alumnae Chapter hosted on appli-
cant party at the home of Emma Padgett Fitzhugh '40
in May. They also hosted a Faculty Forum with Dr.
Lundy Pentz, at the James River Country Club. Dr.
Pentz presented a program entitled "Bogus Science:
Facts, Freaks, and Frauds". Kam Bonfoey Burgdorf
'61 , chairman organized this event. Also representing
the College was Carroll Oliver Roach '84.
Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Alumnae Chapter hosted a Fac-
ulty Forum luncheon at The Racquet Club, in Phila-
delphia and a cocktail party in Wilmington,
Delaware at the University and Whist Club with Dr.
Menk as the speaker, in late April. Laura O'Hear
Church '82, chairman, organized the events with the
help of Wendy Pfautz '82.
Marty Kline Chaplin '51, Kim Baker Glenn '79 and Meme
Lund '66 enjoy the Northern Virginia Alumnae cocktail
party.
Susan Johnson High '62, Mary Cloud Hamilton
Hollingshead '61, Dr. Patricia Menk, Laura O'Hear
Church '82, Emy Martin Rouse '65 and David Church
enjoy the Philadelphia Faculty Speakers luncheon.
Raleigh/Durham/
Chapel Hill
The Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill Alumnae chap-
ter hosted a cocktail party at the home of Barbara
Williams Craig '61 with Dr. John T. Rice as the guest
speaker. Organizers of the event were Dena Aretakis
Horn '81, Susan Train Fearon '69, Courtney Lester
Procter '81 and Mary Stuart Copeland Alfono '84.
Also representing the College was Carroll Oliver
Roach '84.
Courtney Lester Proctor '81 and Barbara Williams Craig
'61 talk during the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill party at
Barbara's home.
Richmond
The Richmond Alumnae Chapter hosted a Career
Exploration Network Trip (CENTS) / Applicants party
in March with Dr. John Haire, Director of the Rose-
marie Sena Center for Career and Life Planning, at
the home of Sallie Brush Thalhimer '73. The following
day seven seniors interviewed with alumnae and
friends. CENTS was organized by Nancy Morison
Ambler '75, chairman, BonnieTuggleMiller '76, Lind-
say Ryland Gouldthorpe '73, and Margaret Ivey Baci-
gal '73.
The Chapter also held a Faculty Forum with Dr.
Martha Evans, French Professor and Carroll Oliver
Roach '84. The luncheon, organized by Cricket Frey
Morris '71 , was held at the Country Club of Virginia.
The Chapter also sponsored the Spring Exam care
packages and sent Easter treats to students from the
Richmond area.
Roanoke
The Roanoke Alumnae Chapter sponsored a Night
at the Theatre to see a production of "Amadeus," at
Mill Mountain Theatre. Cyndi Phillips Fletcher '82,
Chairman, organized the event.
They also hosted an applicant party at the Fletch-
er's home with Virginia Irvine, Assistant Director of
Admissions.
San Antonio
The San Antonio Alumnae Chapter hosted a Faculty
Forum and dinner with Dr. Menk at the San Antonio
Country Club in April. Katie McGee '86, chairman,
organized this event.
Katie also hosted an applicant party in her home in
early April.
Maureen Kelley and Carroll Oliver Roach '84 also
attended.
Son Antonio alumnae Mary Kerr Denny '64 and Katie
McGee '86 enjoy the visit from Dr. Patrick Menk in April.
South Boston
Joelle Keith '88, Lisa Derby '88, Sallie Brush Thalhimer
'73, and Nancy Ambler '75 visit during the Richmond
CENTS/Applicant party at Sallie's home.
Meg Ivy Crews '74, hosted area alumnae and
friends for a luncheon in her home with Dr. John T.
Rice, Lee Johnston Foster '75, Executive Director of
Alumnae Activities, and Carroll Oliver Roach '84 in
late April.
Mrs. John Thrift, mother of Mary Tucker Thrift '91, Nancy
Fray McCormick '60 and Marsha Wilkins Owen '69 at
the South Boston, Va. alumnae luncheon.
Tidewater
The Tidewater Alumnae Chapter hosted a Cocktail
party with Dr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Grafton as special
guests in May at the home of Eloise Clyde Chandler
'77. Talbott Jordan '72, chairman, organized this
event. Also attending from the College was Carroll
Oliver Roach '84.
Linda Dolly Hammack '62, Donna Cason Smith
Charlotte Jackson Lunsford '51 enjoy the Washington
D.C./Suburban Maryland porty.
Washington D.C./
Suburban Maryland
The Washington D.C./Suburban Maryland Alum-
nae Chapter held a reception at the Notional Head-
quarters of the American Red Cross in Washington in
early May with Dr. Cynthia H. Tyson, President and
Carroll Oliver Roach '84, Director of Chapter De-
velopment with Charlotte Jackson Lunsford '51 , Trus-
tee as host. Donna Cason Smith '86, chapter
chairman, and Millicent Wosell Wood '68 organized
the event.
They also held a steering committee meeting at the
home of Lori Vaught '86 and Kothy McDonough '86 in
March with Carroll Oliver Roach '84.
Williamsburg
Rachel Hobbs Blanks '/5 hosted an applicant party
in her home in late April with Janie Garrison, Assis-
tant Director of Admissions.
Anne Stern Gallagher '73, Anne Hogshead '39 and Laura
O'Hear Church '82 discuss forming a Wilmington Chapter
at the Wilmington Alumnae cocktail party.
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NOTES
34
■'29
ALICE TURNER Purde of
Raleigh, N.C. moved to
Springmoon Retirement Com-
munity in 1984 and she says
she is happy. Her husband Ed
passed away in 1977. AHce
has three children: Edward III,
Susan Borden, and Alice. Ed-
ward and Susan live in Ra-
leigh, Alice lives in Charlotte.
'31
A«ARY WAITERS Cresswell
of Marietta, Pa. is retired and
lives in the Lancaster County
community. Her daughter lives
in York County. She has two
grandsons that are in college;
one is a Business and Real Es-
tate major, the other is a grad-
uate student in Architecture.
-'32
PAGE HOWARD Brodham
and her husband moved to
Charlotte, N.C. last year. She
recently enjoyed a delightful
evening with other Mary Bald-
win Alumnae and meeting
President Tyson and John
Rice. She says she is proud of
the outstanding leadership
they give to the College.
GOLDIE HARRIS Moder
was sick and in the hospital
twice in 1 987. She is residing in
Bridgeport, Oh.
'33
MARGARET GRIER Living
ston of Buffalo, N.Y. has two
sons and one daughter living
in Delaware, Connecticut, and
Virginia. She has three grand-
children in college; one in
medical school and two with
their Master's degree.
SARA HARRIS Hanger of
Staunton says that she is in
great health and she is enjoy-
ing life to its fullest. She has
been a widow for twenty-
seven years. She has taught
twenty-four years as Head of
the Math department at Lee
High in Staunton. She has nine
grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren.
MARGARET KING Westcott
lives in Walpole, N.H. She
soys after spending forty-
eight happy yeors as the wife
of Robert Hardmon, who was
in charge of Water Policy &
Supply for the state of New
Jersey, and four years as a
widow, she is starting a won-
derful new life as the wife of
Harry Westcott. Her volunteer
activities include "Meals on
Wheels," and church activi-
ties.
CHARLOHE ALEXANDER
TAYLOR of Harrisonburg is
living in Sunnyside Retirement
Community and enjoys the
company of a number of other
Mary Baldwin alumnae.
MILDRED MAWHINNEY
Clements was honored with
the Masonic Community
Builders Award, which was
designed to give recognition
to a resident of the Northern
Neck area who has offered
outstanding service to the
community. In presenting the
award, the lodge cited Mil-
dred for her work in estab-
lishing one of the most
successful blood programs in
the state in Richmond County
and her personal donation of
sixteen gallons of blood dur-
ing her lifetime. She was also
commended for her service to
the Richmond County Rescue
Squad of which she is a char-
ter member. Mildred was pre-
sented with a Community
Builders Plaque and a Ma-
sonic Certificate along with o
check to be presented to her
favorite charity.
-'35
LOUISE MARTIN Nagel of
Pensacolo, Fla. spent a month
in the Fall traveling in India,
Nepal, Hong Kong, and
China. She has eight grand-
children and three great-
grandchildren.
-'36
LUCILLA WHITE Whitted
and her husband of Wilming-
ton, De. are retired but she
says they ore as busy as ever.
They ore active with Church
and community activities as
well as with their grond-
doughter.
DOROTHY HOOGE King of
Richmond soys she has
travelled o lot and enjoys it.
She hos two daughters and
four grandchildren. Her
daughters have all graduated
from college and have good
jobs. One of her grand-
daughters is married.
-'37
EDIE ALPHIN Moseley of
Blacksburg, Vo. says she has
many fond emories from her
fiftieth reunion lost May. Her
good health allows her to
continue doing the many ac-
tivities she enjoys most; Bible
classes, exercise classes,
bridge, and lots of travel.
-'38
SARAH LACY Miller of
Hinton, Vo. is currently the
President of the Harrison-
burg-Rockingham County
Church Women United and is
omemberofthe Committee on
Ministry of the Presbytery of
the Shenandoah, Presbyterian
Church USA. She and her hus-
band ore retired and enjoying
their grandchildren.
EVELYN THOMPSON
Alexander of Covington, Va. is
making her third trip to the
Greek Isles in May. Her vol-
unteer activities include
working with the church, the
Bloodmobile, and the March
of Dimes.
VIRGINIA COOKE Volk
and her husband of Sarasota,
Flo. have travelled a lot
together. They hove been to
Europe many times and visited
places like Morocco, Japan,
China, Thailand, Bali, Phil-
lipines. Hong Kong, Austria,
Hungary, and Canada.
MARY JANE COOKE Was
sell of Dallas, Tx. soys that she
and her husband Tom ore en-
joying retirement and theirtwo
grandchildren. She sings in a
Womans Chorus, and she also
loves to needlepoint.
ELEANOR CELY Carter of
Chapel Hill, N.C. has three of
her children living within five
miles of her. She says this way
she con be in close touch with
her two grandchildren.
ELIZABETH LUCAS Cum
mins of Fairfield, Va. takes
short trips with the Senior Citi-
zens groups, as well as with
friends. She enjoys the Trav-
elogue programs and likes to
go to plays at the local col-
leges and schools.
MARYPHILPOnSHudgins
of Mobjack, Va. says she is
trying to adjust to her life with-
out her husband who passed
away last year. At present, she
is keeping busy with church
work and various club activi-
ties, plus continuing with her
business. She had a nice visit
with MARGARET TAYLOR
Belote and her husband re-
cently. They are now living in
Port Charlotte, Fla. Mary and
JESSIE ROUDABUSH Price
see each other as often as
possible.
MARY CRIST Key of Rich-
mond, Vo. says during the
1970'sandl980'ssheandher
husband have been "boating
enthusiasts," owning a boat
for several years. At the pres-
ent time, they are interested in
and active in the Richmond
Power Squadron, a boating
organization there in the city.
Vegetable growing is Mary's
number one hobby.
GERE BERRY Vanlear of
Staunton, Va. enjoys living on
the farm and in the house in
which she was born. She has
two granddaughters: Rachel
and Jennifer.
■'39
ELIZABETH BOYD Caskey
of Honolulu, H.I. is a delegate
to the Episcopal Church's
Trienniel Convention in De-
troit, June 30th through July
9th. She will also be travelling
to Australia and New Zealand
in September with a group of
retired Navy women,
FRANCES PERROTTET
Kresler of Tucsore, Az. is still
golfing, studying wotercolor
painting, and very active in
volunteering at St. Joseph's
Hospital in Tucsore.
VIRGINIA KELLER Good
fellow of Memphis, Tn. had
major surgery that altered her
Docent status, but she is still
active on the sidelines. She is
still active in the church and
the Garden Club, as well as
with her grandson's senior
year at college. Virginia has
made phone contact with
many of her friends from
school.
FRANCES RUE Godwin of
Phoenix, Az. is busy travelling.
She went to Europe last Fall
and plans to go to Egypt this
October. Her husband is re-
tiring in June, but she will con-
tinue to work for a while. They
now hove two granddaugh-
ters and one grandson.
HAZEL ASTIN Buchanan of
San Antonio, Tx. says five of
her eight grandchildren are in
college now. One is in the 3rd
year at West Point, and one is
in the 1 st year at the Air Force
Academy. Our sympathy to
Hazel as her husband passed
away January 29, 1988.
'42
LAURA LUCK Sties of Ash
land, Va. is busy with church
activities at Duncan Memorial
United Methodist and other
civic organizations. She and
her husband Joe enjoy their
boys and five grandchildren
who all live within thirty miles
of each other.
'44
VONCEIL LEGRAND
Chapman of Vero Beach, Fla.
tells us that her son Paul was
married last Fall.
-'45
MARGARET EARLE Baker
of Bronxville, N.Y. retired from
teaching in June 1987. She
now works part time with a
financial planning group. Her
daughter Susan was married
in July and is now entering the
teaching profession. Mar-
garet frequently has her three
year-old grandson, Jesse, visit
for overnights.
'47
Our sympathy goes out to
VIRGINIA WARNER
Louisell at the death of her
mother in March.
MARY BETH REED Smyth
and her husband Gordon
were on the Mary Baldwin
campus in Mid February. Gor-
don, an executive with E.I.
duPont de Nemours, spoke to
Business students on "Human
Resources Management." The
Smyths live in Rockland, Dela-
ware, but also have a home in
Wintergreen, Vo.
JEAN BAILEY McKmney of
Astoria, Or. says that she and
her husband are finding that
being retired is opening up all
sorts of new adventures for
them — from writing local
histories to mission work in
Jamaica.
'49
BETTY BEASLEY Feldler
and her husbond Ralph are
residents of Incline Village,
Nv., but they also hove homes
in Dallas, Tx. and Polos Ver-
des, Co. Her daughter Lee
Sanders Harpool lives in Little
Rock, Ark. and has two chil-
dren: Drew and Laura.
-'50
ELIZABETH DIXON Brooks
of Courtlond, Va. and her hus-
band spend most of their sum-
mers at Nags Head, where
B.B. enjoys golf and the beach.
Their grandchildren live only
ten miles away and she says
they odd joy to their lives. B.B
retired in October 1986.
'51
PAHY ANDREW Goodson
has recently become a docent
in the aviary at the Virginia
Living Museum in Newport
News, Va. She soys perhaps
those early morning field trips
in Dr. Humphries zoology
class spawned this interest.
Patty is also enjoying her two
granddaughters, church work,
and a little golf.
JEAN KYLE Hedges retired
last February from her work in
the Arlington County Govern-
ment. Her husband still has a
business in Arlington, how-
ever. They vacationed in Ja-
maica recently and they travel
whenever they get the oppor-
tunity. All four of their children
live in the V^ashington area.
They have one grandchild.
SHANNON GREENE
Mitchell is still working on her
Ph.D. in the History of Ideas at
UT/Dollas. She soys their
house is for sale right now,
and when it is sold, she and
her husband are retiring to
Sonoma, Co.
CONSTANCE MCHUGH
Kimerer of Pittsburgh, Pa. says
she and her husband John en-
joy playing golf and vaca-
tioning in Naples, Fla.
-'52
Our sympathy to BETTY
GWALTNEY Schutte at the
death of her daughter, Eliza-
beth. She died of cancer at
age twenty-four. Elizabeth
was a senior low student at the
University of Vo.
RUTH HARRISON Quillen
of Waynesboro, Vo. tries to
pursue her interest in Art. Her
daughter, Linda, is a Design
Coordinator for Hopeman
Bros, in Waynesboro. She is
on interior design graduate
from VPI. Her son. Kirk, is a
sales manager of Waynes-
boro Nurseries, Inc. He is mar-
ried and has two daughters.
Kirk also graduated from VPI,
in Business. Her other son,
Timothy, is a landscape archi-
tect, another graduate of VPII
-'53
MICKEY HUDSON Costa of
Charleston, S.C. is a Real Es-
tate Broker and she loves it.
She soys that she is ecstatically
happy with her husband of
thirty-six and a half years.
Their oldest son, Louis is a
medical surgeon. Their
youngest son, Milton, is a
medical doctor in general
practice. Their daughter,
Sheri, has a Masters degree in
Special Education. All three
are happily married with three
qeous children each.
she is building for the first
time.
-'57
FRAN WILLS Delcher of Bal-
imore, Md. is involved with
)ctivilies such as the School
3oard, Real Estate clubs, Bas-
er Seals, Real Estate Industry,
]nd Leukennio Telethon.
EDNA SMITH Duer of So
loma, Co. Is a professional
Tiodel. She was on five bill-
ooards for an insurance com-
oany. She is also on a card in
doctors' offices for a Grand-
parents' program at Memorial
Hospital. Edna became a
grandparent in May.
PATSY ANN MAXWELL
McCurry of Atlanta, Go. has
(our grandchildren. She does
a lot of travelling.
ANN KENNEDY Melton of
Davidson, N.C. soys her
mother lives in Staunton, so
she comes back to the area
frequently.
MARY WELLS Powell of
Boone, N.C. is a Professor of
Psychology and Coordinator
of the Graduate Program in
Industrial/Organizational
Psychology at Appalachian
State University. She is a mem-
ber of the American Psycho-
logical Association, The
Academy of Management,
The American Society for Per-
sonnel Administration, The
American Society for Training
and Development, and the
Organizational Behavior
Teaching Society.
HELEN THOMPSON
Sharpley of Metter, Ga. is a
homemaker and farmer. She
is involved with Junior League,
DAR, Colonial Dames, and
-'58
JUDY GALLUP Armstrong
of Staunton, Vo. does a lot of
travelling. She has been to
Europe, China, Japan, and
took a Caribbean cruise last
Winter. Judy is presently
learning sign language, and
she is going for another real
estate degree.
CAROLYN GRIFFIS Smith
of Frederick, Md. is the Presi-
dent of Investment Club, and is
very active in the Garden Club
and Bridge Club. She ploys
tennis weekly and walks three
to four miles every day.
JACQUELINE SENNA
Westfoil of Richmond, Va. is
enjoying her two grandchil-
dren and watching Richmond
grow! She went to Switzerland
to ski in February and then
spent four days in Paris.
-'59
SKIP WILLIAMS Campbell
of New Orleans, La. is cur-
rently active being a mother,
with church, choir, T.V. studio,
hospital board, and fund
raisers.
ANN SINGLETARY Bass of
College Station, Tx. soys that
after living there for twelve
years, she still misses the east
coast. Her husband continues
to do field work in Turkey. Ann
hopes to go bock there with
cannot make it to the reunion
in May.
GWEN KENNEDY Hunnicutt
of Georgetown, Tx. recently
had a book published. Rituals
of Reunion In American Prot-
estant Culture, by the Oxford
University Press.
MARTHA MOSELEY John
son of Tampa, Flo. says she
completely renovated o home
last year that she owns in Old
Hyde Pork. Her grandparents
builtthehomein 1928. It is now
rented to a family from France
who she soys ore very inter-
esting neighbors. Martha's
daughter, Caroline, spent a
year in Vienna. Her son. Bob,
spent year in Berlin. Martha
visited both of them while they
were there, making various
side trips to other countries.
RUTH HAWKINS Molony of
Waynesboro, Vo. soys after
being o widow for seven
years, and teaching school for
seventeen years, she has re-
married, become a housewife
and started all over again with
Tom and Carrie at fifty!
BETSY EDWARDS Wood
word of Fairfax, Va. is a
teacher with the Fairfax
County Public Schools. She
says her girls' activities and
school keep her busy.
-'60
JANE SHIFLET Rexrode of
Waynesboro, Va. is teaching
at the Adult Learning Center in
Fishersville. They hove a
Staunton class two afternoons
a week held on the MBC
campus.
him before long. She is cur-
rently doing lot of teaching
and accompanying. Her son
Alan plays the trumpet and is
considering a music major in
college. Ann regrets that she
'61
LOIS WILLARD Daniel of
Lexington, Ky. is a teacher at
Millcreek Elementary School.
She has been awarded a
travel-study fellowship to visit
Japan this summer. She is par-
ticipating in a sixteen day tour
of Japan June26-July 12, as a
guest of the Keizai Koho
Center in Tokyo.
-'62
SALLY HELTZEL Peorsall of
Mobile, Al. is still involved in
music, theatre, and church.
Her husband David, is a con-
sulting engineer with BE & K in
Mobile. Their oldest daughter
Sally, is a sophomore at
Davidson.
MIMI MCKINNON Sherrill
of Pensacolo, Flo. soys she is
enjoying being the Class of '62
Class Fund Representative this
year. She has one son at
Hampden-Sydney College
and another son at Washing-
ton and Lee.
-'63
LANE WRIGHT Cochrane of
San Jose, Co. is a scientific
prog rommeranalyst for LMSC
in Sunnyvale. Her husbond
Jim, is a product manager for
Becton Dickinson. Their son
Joy is junior at Santa Clara
University. Their daughter
Julia is a senior in high school.
JUDY LIPESGorst of Salem,
Vo. has coordinated and
chaired numerous charitable
events from Den-Mother, to
Football Mother, to Choir
Mother etc. She is the Presi-
dent of the Salem Garden
Club, volunteer in Drug Re-
habilitation, a guest lecturer in
Drug Rehabilitation, a Sunday
School teacher, o church choir
member, and she is an English
Hand bell chair.
JANET BISH Holmes of
Manchester, Mo. spent two
years in Jakarta, Indonesia.
SUSAN SALE Luck of
Severna Pork, Md. went on a
three week safari to Kenya
with her husband's interna-
tional business. She soys they
travel a lot. She has been to
Egypt four times already.
Susan's really enjoying her job
as an Executive Recruiter and
she says the girls ore a great
joy to them.
LIBBY LINN Traubman of
Son Mateo, California is a
full-time volunteer with Bey-
ond War Foundation. It is a
non-profit, educotionol foun-
dation whose goal is to
change the lhinl<ing of this
nation; to move from a depen-
dency on war to resolve con-
flicts with other alternatives.
MARY MERCER Ferguson of
Richmond, Va. is a housewife
and an active volunteer. Her
husband is an Executive Vice-
President of an investment
banking company. Their old-
est son, Allen, is a Freshman at
Washington & Lee University
this year. The other three sons
are in St. Christopher's school
in Richmond.
-'64
SALLY DORSEY Danner of
Atlanta, Go. started a new
business in 1987 entitled,
"Sally Danner & Associates."
They handle public relations
and special events. Sally is
also an Interior Designer.
-'65
GAIL MCALPIN Schweick
ert of Midlothian, Va. is cur-
rently the President of League
of Women Voters of the Rich-
mond Metro area.
JANE MORRIS Jones of
Winter Springs, Fla. says her
family is currently living in
Japan for a year on a Ful-
bright Award. Her husband,
David, is on anthropologist
teaching American Studies,
and Jane isteoching English in
two Japanese Universities.
Their sons Ian, thirteen, and
Nathan, nine, ore attending an
international school.
-'66
JANNE FOSTER Robinson
of Harrisonburg, Va. soys life
is good in the Shenandoah
Valley. She has been there for
one year now. She lived in
Charlotte, N.C. before. Her
son Ryder, attends MIT and
will graduate in 1990.
DAVYNE VERSTANDIG
Frisbie is preparing her new
book of poetry entitled PRO-
VISIONS which w\\ be out in
late Spring. She has given
three poetry readings at dif-
ferent libraries and a theatre
in Connecticut. Her husband
Peter, who is an artist, has hod
a successful show this past
Fall. They hove three healthy
and growing children: Deva,
Deven, and Emerson.
JAN BAILEY Wofford of
Greenville, S.C. finished her
MFA in writing last July. She is
presently teaching and writing
whenever she con.
LYNN SMITH Barron of
Columbia, S.C. says that her
husband Porter, her son Porter
Jr., and herself are all doing
fine. Porter Jr. is thirteen years
old, is playing soccer, and en-
joying the seventh grade. Lynn
is now the upper school libra-
rian at his school. She is en-
couraging Hammond students
to come to MBC.
ROBIN WILSON Leo of At
lanta, Ga. has four children.
Richard, who is eighteen,
graduates from Culver in
June. The rest are at Lovett in
Atlanta. Robin is busy with
MBC activities such as the
ABV, chairman of Atlanta
Alumnae Group, as well as
with church and travel.
'67
MARIAN MCDOWELL
Whitlock of Lonsdale, Pa. has
completed her doctorate at
Temple University, earning on
Ed.D. She hod the opportunity
to present her research at both
international and national
conventions on the gifted.
Presently she is writing on arti-
cle to be published in a
professional journal.
-'68
ANNE LAWRENCE Town
send of Rocky Mount, N.C.
represented Mary Baldwin
College at the inauguration of
Leslie Holland Garner Jr., as
third President of North Caro-
lina Wesleyon College, April
NANCY KEVAN Lazaron of
Norfolk, Va. teaches Art at
Norfolk Collegiate School.
Her husband Edward, is prin-
cipal of an architectural firm,
"The Design Collaborative."
Their daughter Elsa is nine
years old; their son Austin, is
four.
VIRGINIA WATSON Ber
nard of Littleton, N.C. has
been volunteering and substi-
tute teaching at her daughter's
school and was chosen to be a
civic representative on the
steering committee for the
Warren County Education
Fund. Virginia soys that she
and some of her friends en-
joyed the class of '68 reunion
last year so much, that some of
them may hove a mini-reunion
at JUDY WELLS Creasy s
weekend lake house this
Spring. Her husband Paul, re-
tired lost Fall after twenty-
eight years in the Navy.
BETTY MAYES Hecht of
Richmond, Va. is in o supervis-
ory position in the computer
field. She enjoys ploying ten-
nis and is involved in a Junior
Achievement Program. She
has two children: Margaret,
seventeen, and Joe, fifteen.
ANN SARTOR Richardson
of Shreveport, Lo. has four
children: Rachel, Samuel,
David, and Stephen. Her hus-
band Ralph is an independent
geologist in the oil business.
NEILLE MCRAE Wilson of
Winter Pork, Fla. says she still
enjoys living there. She works
part time in her husband
Alan's real estate office. Alan
III is now nine and Pency in six;
therefore, she is very active in
the PTA, Scouts, church activi-
ties and Junior League.
■'70
-'69
MARTHA FOWLER of Roa
noke, Va. is still working in the
school system with blind and
visually impoired students,
and in the summers, she works
with computer camps/pro-
grams for children. She is
looking forward to summer
trovels and studying in a fel-
lowship program.
SUZANNE HARTLEY
Barker of Colville, Wash, says
her family are all still enjoying
small town living in the Pacific
Northwest. They bought their
first boat this year which has
opened up even more ad-
ventures in near-by British
Columbia. Suzanne teaches
kindergarten and enjoys
sports.
DINAH THOMPSON
Searles of Cumberland, Md.
says she is very busy with her
three children: Leigh, Alison,
and Andrew. She teaches Sun-
day school and she has been
the PTA president for the past
two years.
STEPHANY HAGAN Boyd
of Richmond, Va. is teaching
French at Lee-Dovis High
School. Her husband Chuck, is
a Systems Officer at Sovran
Bank. Their daughter Lindsay,
10, is in the fifth grade.
ZANNE MACDONALD of
Charlottesville soys after a
year in Spain she is settled
back into work and having fun
at home. She is returning to
Spain for the month of June.
-'71
KATE GLADDEN Schultz of
Winchester, Vo. represented
Mary Baldwin College at the ,
inauguration of Dr. Marilyn j
Clark Beck, the new President I
of Lord Fairfax Community
College, April 17, 1988.
ANTOINETTE MORRISON
of Charleston, W.Va. has gone
back to school to get an MA in
counseling.
JANET SAPP of Augusto,
Go. has been staying busy
working as a senior profes-
sional medical representative 1
for Pfizer, Inc. and volunteer- i
ing as Community Vice-Presi-
dent of the Augusta Junior
League. She recently went
scubo diving in Florida and
skiing at Sun Valley, Idaho.
SPENCER JESTER Savage of
Virginia Beach soys she
misses all of her old friends
and hopes that everyone will
all get together for their 20th!
Her husbond Randy is very
busy with his dental practice.
Their two children, Richard i
and Cory, ore growing up way
too fast. She says best wishes
to all!
-'72
MARILYN MUHLEMAN
Rousch was married to Arthur
Rausch in 1983 and moved to
Annapolis, Md. in January
1984. They ore expecting their
first child soon. Marilyn hod
been working as a legislative
aid to a lobbyist at the state
capital until last November.
-'73
MARGARET WILSON
Doherty of Arlington, Va. says
after three years in the con-
sulting "fast lone," she has re-
turned to banking. She is in
charge of the regional institu-
tional trust department for Sig-
net Bank.
MARY JANE CONGER of
Greensboro, N.C. has been a
foster parent to five children
(one at a time): Jason, Susan,
Amy, Jennifer, and Stephen.
Mary Jane still stays in contact
with three of them. She says
this is very rewarding.
SUSAN BUCHANAN
Jacob of Libreville, Gabon is
moving back to her home out-
side of Paris this summer ofter
four-and-a-half years on the
equator in Gabon. She says
she would love to see any
MBC friends who ore traveling
in Europe. Also, she would like
to hear from anyone trying to
raise their children to be bi-
lingual.
ELIZABETH "LIBBOO"
WEIR Riddler moved last
September from New York
City to Houston, Tx.
RANDY SIEGFRIED
Oglesby of Richmond, Va.
says SUSAN BUCHANAN
Jacob, her daughters Emily
and Jennifer, and Susan's
father come to visit her for an
afternoon in June 1987. They
had a wonderful time
together, but she says it was
not nearly long enough.
LEIGHTON TURLEY Isaacs
of San Jose, Co. and her hus-
band John hove been involved
in a young and growing non-
denominational church for ten
years now. They keep very
busy with their four children as
well. She says their house is
full of activity and fun. She
says she has a hard time find-
ing time for her art, but peri-
odically she does portraits for
people, or commercial work
for the church. Her daughter
Corrie is a budding actress in
children's theater, her son An-
drew, is in soccer and little
league, end her other daugh-
ter Katie, is starting kinder-
garten this year, and their
baby Christopher is a busy
toddler now.
KAY HEWin Holmes of Fort
Smith, Ar. has retired from
teaching to enjoy her two chil-
dren full time. She and her hus-
band adopted their two
children and feel very blessed
to hove them. Her hobbies re-
volve around hand work:
needlepoint, crosstitch, and
calligraphy.
DABNEY COORS Crabtree
of Memphis, Tn. is moving to
Atlanta, Go. in June.
MARGARET IVEY Bacigol
of Richmond, Va. is co-
authoring on authorized biog-
raphy of The Honorable Rob-
ert R. Merhige.
SARAH RAINEY Phelps and
her fomily hove lived in Cali-
fornia for the past twelve
years and they love it. Right
now Sarah is busy with the
kids, but she is hoping to re-
turn to school for her Califor-
nia teaching credential next
year. Her mother and step-
father live in Staunton, so they
do visit here some. Sarah says
if anyone is ever in the Oak-
land, Co. Oreo, please look
her up!
■'74
DEBORAH JAMIESON of
Phoenix, Ariz, soys she and
her husband Scott are expect-
ing their first child in eorly
September. As a "last fling,"
they will spend three weeks in
Australia in May 1988.
NOMINATION FOR ALUMNAE AWARDS
In recognition of distinguished service and accomplishments, I would like to nominate the following alumna to
receive the: (Check one)
Emily Smith Medallion
Emily Kelly Leadership Award
Career Achievement Award
Service to Church Award
Service to Community Award
Name:
Maiden Name:
Address:
City:
Class:
Activities and Achievements:
State:
Zip Code:
Honors Received:
I believe she is worthy of this prestigious award because:
(Attach additional information if needed)
Submitted by:
Date:
Send nominations to: The Nominating Committee, Office of Alumnae Activihes, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton,
Virginia 24401, by August 30, 1988.
-'15
MARY TUCKER of Jackson
ville, Flo. enjoyed a January
visit with CAROLYN
BAILEY Bennett and her hus-
band Bryant. She also spent
several days with VICKI DE-
GARNETTE Mann and her
family at Disney World.
-'76
Our sincere sympathy to AL-
LISON HALL Blaylock on the
death of her husband, Leo-
nard, in Februory. Allison and
her three children are living in
Houston, Tx.
-'11
GRACE MCCUTCHEN
Doughtridge and her husband
Belk, have recently moved to
Foyetteville, N.C. where he is
employed with Belk's. In
Grace's free time, she is fox-
hunting in Southern Pines and
she is still continuing with her
painting. Her second art show
was in Columbia, November
1987.
MARY CLARK McBurney
says she's alive and well in
Charlotte, N.C. She
thoroughly enjoyed her tenth
year reunion in May. She re-
cently attended a cocktail
party in Charlotte for Dr. Ty-
son and the winter meeting of
the Board. She says that ev-
erything at the college sounds
so positive.
■'78
MARGARET CARSWELL
Richardson of Hilton Head
Island, S.C. says she is happy
and busy rearing her two chil-
dren and being a wife. She
does lot of volunteer work.
PENNY MORRISS of At
lanta. Go. has a job as a con-
seirgeforthe IBM Tower there
and works for Prentiss
Properties.
BAMBI FAULCONER Lich
ford of Lynchburg, Va. and her
family live on a horse farm just
outside the city limits. She
rides, shows, and takes care
of boarders' horses. Her hus-
band Lewis has cattle from
early Spring through Novem-
ber. Their son Lewis IV is just
learning to ride. They bought a
pony for him from STAR HA-
VEN '78. Bambi soys she sees
TERRY COLAWKershner 77
often. She is still in Warm
Springs, Va.
LIBBI BURLEH Hoymon of
Nags Head, N.C. and her hus-
band Michael own and oper-
ate very successful
restaurant there called the
"Seafare." She hopes that
everyone will stop by and visit
if they ore in the area. Libbi is
presently a full-time mommy.
Their son is seventeen months
old and very active. She will be
returning to work when he is
three. Libbi and her husband
ore renovating an old cottage
and some commercial
property.
LEIGH HAMBLIN Gordon
had new baby in May and
moved to Mexico July 2, 1 987.
She has been studying and
trying to speak Spanish ever
since!
MARTHA GATES Gollo of
Alexandria, Va. is a busy
working mom. She is enjoying
her daughter Caroline im-
mensely. She organized o
newsletter and reunion for the
tenth anniversary of Junior
year abroad. Old friends from
all over the country partici-
pated. She says it was great
fun.
MARY lUSI Bedke of Man-
chester, N.H. is Legal Assis-
tant at a low firm. She is
involved in Junior League as a
volunteer activity.
DEBORAH REXRODE Tim-
berlake of Monterey, Va. is a
kindergarten art teacher in the
Highland County schools. She
is a member of the "Take it EZ
Club," and "Right to Clear Air
Organization." She has one
son, David, who is four years
old.
-'79
MARIA ZUNIGA Conseco
has recently accepted the
position of Executive Director
for the Webb County Heritage
Foundation in Laredo, Tx.
MARY LETHA WARREN of
Richmond, Va. says she and
MARTHA HUNTER had a
wonderful time touring
France, Italy, and Switzerland
this past summer. As they vis-
ited various museums and
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Membership Nomination Form
I wish to nominate the foUowing alumna for membership on the Alumnae Association Board of Directors.
Name:
Address: ____
City:
Class:
Occupation:
Business Address, if applicable:
Community Activities:
State:
Zip Code:
Phone Number:
Special accomplishments, awards, honors:
Present or past work with the Alumnae Association:
Family: Husband's name and occupation:
Children's names and special information, if applicable:
I believe that she would bring the following strengths to the Alumnae Board:
Submitted by:
Date:
^
Send nominations to: The Nominating Committee, Office of Alumnae Activities, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton,
Virginia 24401, by August 30, 1988.
cultural sights, she said they
were most appreciative of Dr.
Echols' and Dr. Desportes'
artful influence.
HELEN CARYL Polmore of
Raleigh, N.C. is back in school
again. She is getting her
Masters in Rehabilitation
Counseling from the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. She plans to
have a career in the field of
Employee Assistance Pro-
grams and currently is doing
an internship in the area with
ITT in Raleigh.
-'80
LYNNTUGGLEGillilondof
Charlotte, N.C. is the manager
of Technical Services Group in
Cash Management at First
Union. She and her husband
Bill also enjoy their role as Ju-
nior High Youth Counselors at
First Presbyterian.
SUSAN KLECK is living and
working in Washington, D.C.
Recently she has travelled to
California and New Orleans
to visit family and friends.
■'81
KATHY HUNT Marion of
Georgetown, S.C. has a
daughter, Elizabeth, who will
be five years old in July. Her
son, Douglas, is two years old.
Kathy is expecting her third in
September.
SUSAN LEWIS of Baton
Rouge, La. is the new Assistant
Director of the Louisiana
Association of Museums and
the new Program Director for
the Southeastern Museums
Conference.
-'82
ELIZABETH WATKINS
Moore of Petersburg, Va. is
self-employed. She owns a
large riding stable which
specializes in hunters and
jumpers. They are currently
competing in horse show com-
petitions in Vo., N.C, and Md.
CARY BROWNLEY of Alex
andria, Va. has made a career
move from property manage-
ment to mortgage banking.
She is the Labor Relations Spe-
cialist for their HUD co-in-
sured construction loons.
KIMBERLY REEDER of Al
buquerque, N.M. is running
the costume shop at the Uni-
versity of New Mexico. She
will be working as shop super-
visor at the Garden Grove
Shakespeare Festival this
summer in California. Her
parents are moving to Hilton
Head, S.C. in May.
■'83
SUSAN PARKER Drean of
Richmond, Va. is presently
teaching the first grade in
Chesterfield County, Va.
LIL MCCLUNG Gilbert of
Durham, N.C. is a nursery
room attendant at Metro Sport
Athletic Club. She and her
husband Rick have one son
named Ross.
JANE LATCHUM Jacobsen
of Richmond, Va. is the Direc-
tor of Human Resources at
Henrico Doctors' Hospital.
MARILYN AUSTIN Twitt 82
works at HDH as the new
Health Core Recruiter. Jane is
a new mommy.
KATHY BIGELOW of Dal
las, Tx. is involved with Junior
League of Dallas, scuba div-
ing, and taking courses to be a
part-time travel agent.
-'84
LYNLEY ROSANELLI War
ner is currently working for
J.C. Bradford & Co., an In-
vestment Securities firm, in
their Clorksville, Tennessee
Branch.
DEIDRE FLEMING Dough
erty attended a recent alum-
nae party in Memphis, while
she was there visiting her par-
ents. Deidre, Guy, and Alex-
andra live in Panama City, Flo.
ELINOR FLYNT RUARK of
Good Hope, Go. received a
recent promotion to Manager
of Public Information for the
University of Georgia College
of Education.
-'85
SANDY HARRISON of
Charleston, W.Vo. is presently
a Missionary in China.
JEANNE REUTHER of Rich
mond, Vo. is a commercial
real estate agent for Virginia
Landmark Corporation.
TRISH GOMEZ of Knoxville,
Tn. is in graduate school at the
University of Tennessee
working full time toward her
Master's degree in social
work. Jerry is still chasing
"bad guys" with the F.B.I.
-'86
ANN-HALL BRANSCOME
Kendall of Charlottesville, Va.
will graduate from the Univer-
sity of Vo. School of Low in
Mayl989.Shewillbeworkmg
in Richmond this summer with
Mays & Valentine.
KAREN AMES Dittamo of Ft.
Woinwright, Alaska is training
a labrodor retriever to help
out with the hunting available
there in the cold north-lands.
TERRY HANCOCK of Roa
noke, Vo. is a chemist, em-
ployed by Centec Analytical
Services. She is engaged and
planning a wedding for the
Fall.
JOCELYN CASSIDY of
Frederick, Md. is currently
working as on Economic Re-
search Assistant for Synergy,
Inc., a Defense Consulting
Firm in Washington, D.C.
STACIA NICHOLSON of
Austin, Tx. has been accepted
to an internship program at
MCV, which is a year long in
the field of obstetrics. She will
be moving to Richmond the
first of June and she soys she is
very excited about it.
-'87
KAREN CAMPBELL of Glen
Allen, Va. has been selected
as Hanover County's nominee
for the 1987-88 Sollie Mae
Teacher Award for beginning
teachers. She is a fourth grade
teacher at John M. Gandy
Elementary School.
BIRTHS
JACQUIE BECK Toner '76 and Eric, a daughter, Rhianna
Kristine, January 20, 1988.
ANN BARTLEY Gardner '77 and Dean, a daughter, Sarah
Ann Bishop, June 18, 1987.
BOO JOHNSTON Miller '79 and Joe, a daughter, Mar-
garet Lewis, April 7, 1988.
GAYLA MCCLELLAND Lemmon '79 and Ted, a son, Tyler
James Lemmon, February 25, 1988.
TIPPIE BOOTH King '80 and William, a daughter, Sydney
Nicole, June 29, 1987.
KELLY HUFFMAN Ellis '80 and husband, twins, Jennifer
James and Dauer Hawkins, September 24, 1987.
JANE LATCHUM Jacobsen '83 and Bill, a son, Joseph
Warren, March 18, 1988.
KELLY PHELPS Winstead '84 and Mark, a daughter, Mary
Katherine, July 8, 1987.
KAREN AMES Dittamo '86 and Michael, a daughter, Car-
oline Marie, December 31 , 1 987.
KATHY WAGNER Christian '87 and John, a son, Jonathan
Scott, March 10, 1988.
MARRIAGES
BETTY BEASLEY '49 to Ralph Fiedler, 1986.
MARGARET WILSON '73 to Jay Doherty, November 21,
1987.
SUZANNE HIGGINS '75 to Joseph O'Malley, September
19, 1987.
MIMI WAGNER '82 to Dr. Robert Jones, August 1 5, 1 987.
ELINOR NORWOOD WAY '82 to Mr. Goode, November
1987.
SHAWN BROWN '83 to Mr. Thompson, April 30, 1988.
IN MEMORIAM
BESSIE HEARD '05, March 22, 1988.
PAULINE GREIDER French '08, December 20, 1987.
JANE MCILHENNY Gates '17, March 2, 1988.
DOROTHY HISEY Bridges '27, February 11, 1988.
MARY WILLIAMS Walker '27, February 21, 1988.
INA MACKEY Shores '31, March 8, 1988.
NELDA ANN TERRIE Swann '38, February 1988.
FLORENCE MARIE COOPER '40, February 16, 1988
NANCY BUCKLEY Raley '51, April 3, 1988.
AT
MARY
BALDWIN
Carpenter Academic Hall
Dedication Completes Renovatioi
The spring meeting of the Mary Baldwin College
Board of Trustees was highlighted by the fanfare of the
dedication of Carpenter Academic Hall and a visit
from the Governor of Virginia on a perfect Friday in
April.
The Honorable Gerald L. Baliles served as dedica-
tion speaker and joined the trustees, members of the
Carpenter Foundation board of directors including
Ann Bowman Day '74, Bud Reinhart, Joseph O'Con-
nor, and spouses, relatives, and friends of the Car-
penter family; and over a hundred special guests who
are close friends of the College.
The ceremony featured a short speech by Ms. Day,
the dedication address by Governor Baliles, and ac-
knowledgements on behalf of the faculty and students
Top, Carpenter Academic
Hall after renovation.
Top right, Governor
Gerald L. Baliles, dedi-
cation speaker. Bottom,
Ann Bowman Day '74,
member of Carpenter
Foundation board of
directors.
by Dr. Ethel Smeak '53, professor of English, ai
Janaan Hashim '89, president-elect of the Studer
Government Association. The festivities conclude!
with an unveiling of a dedication plaque and a ribboi
cutting at the entrance to Carpenter Academic Hall.
That evening, a large group sat down to a black-tie
dinner held in Lyda B. Hunt Dining Hall and presided
over by President Cynthia H. Tyson.
Carpenter Academic Hall took its name during the
ceremonies from Leona Bowman Carpenter who at-
tended Mary Baldwin from 1931 to 1933. She and her
husband, E. Rhodes Carpenter, established a founda-
tion in the late 1960s for the purpose of supporting
charitable, religious, scientific, literary, or educational
efforts. Their daughter, Ann Bowman Day, graduated
from Mary Baldwin in 1974 and currently sits on the
board of the Carpenter Foundation.
The foundation awarded a grant of $1.35 million to
Mary Baldwin College to support the renovation,
furnishings, and maintenance of the old Academic
Building, as it has been known since its construction in
1906. Renovation began in 1986 and was completed
during the 1987-88 academic year when new faculty
office furniture and classroom desks were brought
into the facility.
The building now displays two external and one
internal plaques honoring Mrs. Carpenter and the E.
Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and
recording the dates of the renovation.
In the midst of the excitement and special events of
the day, the Board of Trustees were nevertheless able
to conduct their usual business. Committees had an
opportunity to meet and conduct business in separate
sessions, and to share their work with the body as a
whole. The trustees gathered together to hear Dr.
John Haire, director of the Rosemarie Sena Center for
Career and Life Planning, discuss the activities of that
program, and to tour the newly acquired athletic facili-
Hes and grounds which the College purchased from
the YMCA (see story, page 43).
In the board's business session on Saturday morn-
ing, the trustees took the opportunity to honor three
of their own who were retiring from board service.
Resolutions were read and entered onto the minutes
of the meeting ackowledging the dedication, generos-
ity, and loyalty of Margaret Herscher Hitchman '40,
Daniel Gerald Donovan, and Charlotte Jackson Luns-
ford '51 during combined service of 43 years to the
College. Each was also presented a framed print of the
College. ^
n
Network-
ing. It's one
of the skills
necessary to
a successful
career that is not often in-
cluded as an integral part
of higher education. And,
while some believe stu-
dents can't become in-
volved in networking until they
experience the world of work, the Rose-
marie Sena Center for Career and Life
Planning has designed a series of pro-
grams that help students form a suppor-
tive network of experienced professionals before they
graduate.
Dr. John Haire, director of the Sena Center, says,
"The purpose of The Network is to establish some
external contacts, some mentor relationships, with
people who have a special interest in the graduates of
Mary Baldwin. Those people are friends and alumnae.
After all, who better knows the quality of a Mary
Baldwin education?
"What we're really hoping to build is a communica-
tions network between our students and our alumnae
and friends of the college who are in, or have connec-
tions in, the world of work so they can assist our
students in the transition from college to a career.
Being a small institution, our placement services really
depend on our alumnae's interest in the success of the
Mary Baldwin graduates."
The Sena Center is moving away from the idea that
The Network only benefits the students; the alumnae
and friends benefit also. If you are aware of a position
then you have a direct link to the entire Mary Baldwin
community through the Sena Center. And, if you're
ready for a career change, you have a direct link to the
opportunities offered by the friends and alumnae of
the College.
"The more people that are involved in The Net-
work, the more effective it will be. Our long range
goals are to have about 4,000 participants," says Dr.
Haire.
Other programs that work well with The Network
are the Video Interviewing Process (VIP) and Career
Exploration Networking Trips (CENTS).
The VIP program provides a way for students to
interview in areas where it's difficult for them to
travel. It also allows employers to recruit Mary Bald-
win students without expense. Basically, employers
fill out questionnaires which inform the Sena Center
about the characteristics of students they would like to
interview. The Center then forwards resumes of ap-
propriate students; employers review the resumes
and select students they would like to interview. The
Sena Center staff then asks the questions in a studio
Career Support
Alumnae Network
is Vital to Students'
Early Successes
facility and
they send
employers
an unedited
video tape.
After reviewing the tape, employers decide if they
wish to arrange more direct contact with a student. It's
efficient, cost free, and an effective way to increase the
candidate pool.
CENTS is a program where students are invited by
alumnae to visit cities that have sparked their interest.
The alumnae then make contacts for the students,
arrange interviews or interview students themselves.
(See article in the May issue.)
While several students have accepted positions
through contacts made with The Network, the pro-
gram has not yet reached its full potential. Dr. Haire
says, "Mary Baldwin friends and alumnae are very
aware of the College's activities and successes. There-
fore, they have a strong vested interest in the success
of the graduates. We need to take this vested interest
and apply it to these programs. It's a terrific concept,
and the programs are already successful. More alum-
nae participation is reaOy all that's necessary to insure
the programs become stronger every year. "
The easiest way one can become involved in The
Network is to call the Sena Center when you become
aware of an opportunity, and the Center then will do
two things: the first is to alert the graduating class
through the Career Opportunities Bulletin; the second is
to alert the alumnae through the Alumnae Job Bulletin.
It you don't have an immediate opportunity for a
student or an alumna, you can still be a part of The
Network simply by being aware. Then when you do
have an opportunity, you can be assured that the
individual you are interviewing wUl have both the
necessary skills and the successful attitude that come
from a quality liberal-arts education. ^
One hundred and ninety-eight graduating seniors
received their diplomas during Commencement representing the second
highest number of graduates in Mary Baldwin's history. Three students
in the traditional program graduated summa cum laude: Margaret Hart-
ley, who also received the Grafton Award for the highest grade point
average for four years, Bobbye Mitchell, and Debbie Wuensch.
From the Adult Degree Program, two earned special recognition.
Margene Hucek graduated summa cum laude, and Barbro Tay-
lor of Staunton was voted the outstanding ADP student by
the faculty. This Commencement marks the 10th anni-
versary of the highly successful Adult Degree Pro-
gram which has been called "one of the best
adult programs in the country" by the
National Association of State Ap-
proved Colleges and
Universities. A.
Martha Grafton presents
Margaret Hartley the Grafton
Award for the highest GPA
over four years.
Mr. Robert Livy acknowledges
the honoring of his mother.
Marguerite Fulwiler Livy '17,
with the Algernon Sydney
Sullivan Non-Student Award.
Barbro Taylor receives ADP
outstanding student award from
Jim Harrington, director of the
Adult Degree Program.
Juniors Sharon Akel and
Michelle Roberts receive the
Russell Award for the research
and production in 1988-89 of a
one-act, one-woman show
based on the life of Vivian
Leigh.
Peggy Kellam receives the
Algernon Sydney Sullivan
Student Award for her
leadership and achievements
at MBC.
Jeri L. Sedlar, Director of
Corporate Affairs for Working
Woman/McCall's Group, was
the students' choice for the 1988
Commencement Speaker.
Tennis Team Captures
Qiampionship
Historically, tennis has been the sport at
Mary Baldwin with several players in the
top national ranks, but the championship
of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference
has always eluded the Mary Baldwin tennis team. This
year, the team captured this championship by half a
point during the final match on the courts. And this
year championships seem abundant as Mary Baldwin
won two of the six singles flights as well as two of the
three doubles flights.
Coach Lois Blackburn said, "This was a big surprise
for us, I knew the night before that we were tied with
W&L. But we lost some matches along the way and I
had not kept up with the score. 1 was not aware until
later in the afternoon that we were in contention. It's a
very big thrill for us. The team is elated and so am 1."
According to Coach Blackburn, the championship
was won with the suspense that winning the cham-
pionship deserves. The final match, the No. 3 doubles
match between Mary Irvin and Allison James against
Lynchburg College's Morse and Sanguino, ended in
straight set 6-3, 6-2 wins for the Irvin-James duo. Mary
Baldwin finished with 50.5 points to Washington and
Lee's 50 points.
Although this is the 19th consecutive winning year
for Coach Lois Blackburn who has a win/loss record of'
209-102, this is the first team that has won an ODAC
championship in any sport for Mary Baldwin since the
College joined the conference in 1982. Washington
and Lee finished second, and Sweet Briar finished
third.
As a result of excellent play, five MBC players were
named to the all conference team: Karin Whitt, Libby
Miller, Allison James, Mary Irvin (singles and
doubles), and Collier Andress.
Playing in the first flight, Karin Whitt had a spring
ODAC record of 10-2, and as a team with Libbey
Miller, they had a 6-1 record. Rachel Festa, second
flight, with a record of 4-6, reached the semifinals in
both singles and doubles, and scored valuable points
for the championship. Kitty Talbot held the third flight
position, and Allison James held the fourth.
Mary Irvin enjoyed a 11-1 spring ODAC record at
the fifth flight, and the sixth was held by Collier
Andress with a record of 12-0. Susie Morris substi-
tuted for the second flight singles position, and played
a number of matches at first and second flight doubles.
Katherine Brandt and Allison Griffin served the team
as loyal supporters and substituted throughout the
year. ^
The 1987-88 tennis team.
Front, Alison Griffin,
Suzie Morris. Second Row,
Coach Lois Blackburn,
Rachel Festa, Mary Irvin,
Collier Andress, Alison
Jones. Back Row, Kitty
Talbot, Katherine Brant,
Karin Whitt.
Acquisition of YMCA
Adds 8A4 Acres
In 1976 Mary Baldwin purchased the Staunton
Military Academy, now known as Upper Cam-
pus. At this same time a portion of the property
(8.44 acres) was sold to the local Y.M.C.A. The
Y.M.C.A. chapter proceeded to buUd a facility with
approximately 40,000 square feet, which houses a
gymnasium; weight room; auxiliary gymnasium; 4
racquetball courts; men's and women's fitness centers
each with a sauna, steam room and whirlpool; men's
and women's locker rooms; offices; classroom space;
field with track; Softball field; and parking lot.
Mary Baldwin took possession of this property dur-
ing May. The process has begun to prepare the prop-
erty for use by Mary Baldwin students, faculty,
administration and staff. There is much work to be
done; changing locks, cleaning and moving of equip-
ment and offices.
Although there are plans for renovation and build-
ing, the College plans to make use of the facility in the
Interim. The College intercollegiate athletic and physi-
cal education programs will divide their programs
between King Gym and the new facility. The dance,
fencing, universal gym, volleyball and basketball pro-
grams will remain in King Gym until appropriate
renovations take place in the new facility. The field
hockey and lacrosse programs will be housed in the
new facility and play on the newly enlarged field on
Prospect Street. All golf and classroom activities such
as health, CPR, Movement Education and Fitness for
Life will take place in the new facility.
The building will open to the college community
sometime in the summer of 1988. Also, during the
summer the college will begin the planning and de-
sign for renovation and additions for the Physical
Activities Center. This process will include the choos-
ing of an architect, developing a design, raising funds
and the actual building project. We hope to include in
the renovation a new wood floor in the gymnasium,
dance and fencing areas, renovated locker and office
areas. Attached to the present facility will be a new
Olympic size swimming pool and auxiliary facilities.
We hope to move the entiance of the facility from
Tams Street to the south side near Tullidge Residence
Hall and the new tennis courts. The proximity of this
facility puUs all of the fitness areas together at one end
of campus with more space and facilities for all of our
programs. We are excited about the challenge of
creating a first-rate Physical Activities Center. ^
by Mary Ann Kasselmann
A view of the newly
acquired 8.44 acres and
the athletic facilities.
That
Other
George
Dr. Gates Injects
Fun Into History
George Mason, American political leader, planter,
original thinker, knitted bristling brows and wagged ■
his walking stick like a cudgel at some substantial but ij
unsophisticated foe. I
"What caused a conservative to become a revolu- |
tionary?" he ripped rhetorically. "Believe me, I tried to I
avoid it." '"'
Poke, weave, parry; the powdered wig that framed
his shrimp-pink face seemed to darken about the ears
like a thundercloud.
"When the king declared us to be rebels, he in fact I
rebelled against us. I sought to conserve the inherent
rights of free men everywhere, which most certainly
included Enghsh colonists!"
Thrust, thud, end of argument.
And don't you ever dare accuse George Mason of an
inconsistency again.
Certainly no one who recently gathered at the old
Fauquier County Public Library on Courthouse
Square in Warrenton sought to dissent. They were
rapt witnesses not to the statesman himself but a
convincingly acerbic impersonation in "George
Mason of Gunston Hall," a historical one-man perfor- ,
mance by Robbins Gates, Professor Emeritus of Politi-
cal Science, currently touring the state under the
auspices of the Theater Wagon of Virginia.
Crusty part, crusty player.
Dr. Gates, at 65 high of forehead and generous of
girth, much in the manner of his full-figured 18th 1 1
century subject, sat back in a motel room with his wife, i '
Caroline, to unwind after one more solo exploration 1
among receptive strangers. Scholarly and sharp as a
debater's objection, he seemed well chosen to portray
a distinguished elder statesman.
"To me," Dr. Gates rumbled in his oracular bari-
tone, "the relevance is this — it's a lot easier to know
where you're going if you understand where you
came from."
Mason: Born 1725, died 1792, he was a guiding force
in the group that led Virginia into the American Revo-
lution and welcomed independence after. An active
member of the Virginia delegation to the Philadelphia
Convention of 1787 that drafted the Constitution of '
the United States, Mason contributed to the discus-
sion on all its major clauses. He withheld his signature
from the document because it contained "no declara-
tion of rights"; his cogent articulation of free speech,
free press, freedom of religion and the rights of ac-
cused persons influenced the guarantee of individual
liberties in what became our Bill of Rights. I
Dr. Gates: Virginia-born and raised, the former
commercial artist and Mary Baldwin College political
science professor wrote his doctoral dissertation on i
the segregational pohcy of massive resistance. He
was against it. A Duke University Lilly scholar and
Mednick grant recipient. Episcopalian and "active
Democrat," Gates retired from teaching last year but
kept on with his longtime hobby of amateur theatrics.
"Heretofore," the newly itinerant Thespian noted,
"I've always been with a resident company. This is
motel-room theater. It's fun."
That's the surprise.
Dr. Gates has fun with his history lesson and so
does the audience.
The bewigged ex-prof and his Theater Wagon sup-
porters are just the sorts to blow dust off the past.
"I'm in this only because Margaret Collins collared
me for it a year and a half ago," confided Gates, "and
she is the most persuasive arm-twister in the world."
Mrs. Collins, who admits to "pushing 80" but won't
say how hard, is co-producer of Theater Wagon, a
Staunton-based company of scholars, players and
playwrights. She was approached by Fairfax County
bicentennial officials to create a commemorative
drama at historic Gunston Hall, and "George Mason"
resulted.
"Robbins was a wonderful actor and taught consti-
tutional law," said Mrs. Collins, "so I simply asked
him to research, write and act in a one-man show."
So easy.
"They wanted a pageant," sighed Fletcher Collins,
also co-producer of Theater Wagon, "and we'd never
do anything as deadly as that. We preferred some-
thing with a real person in it, doing something in
depth. It doesn't try to be teachy; it remains in the
dramatic mode, using as much as possible Mason's
own words, to bring the real man through and not
merely somebody's idea of what he was like."
Gates wrote the script with Bette Collins, dramatist
daughter-in-law of Margaret and Fletcher.
"What I provided was the terminology and what
Mason was after, " said Mr. Gates. "Bette provided the
transitions and the humor."
So in went Mason's gout, his deep aversion to
Philadelphia, his impatience with the circumlocutions
of lawyers.
Along with his ideas.
"Of those in attendance that day only Governor
Randolph, Mr. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts and I
refused to affix our signatures." The federal Constitu-
tion was just not democratic enough for argumenta-
tive George Mason.
Nor were the delegates to the Constitutional
Convention.
"I addressed the convention in no uncertain terms, "
Article and photograph
first appeared in the
Norfolk Ledger-Star. Re-
printed by permission.
Because of space limi-
tations, this article has
been shortened.
snapped the actor in Warrenton, rising heavily to his
feet. "I told them that the institution of slavery pre-
vents the immigration of whites, that it produces the
most pernicious effect on manners, that every master
of slaves is born a petty tyrant, and that slaves bring
the judgment of heaven on a country."
Since, Mason — that habitual and unabashed Ameri-
can minority of one — would seem to have been
proven correct.
So Dr. Gates has been going about the state since
January spreading the word on this precognitive
patriot.
"The basic thing that comes through," said Dr.
Gates, "is that here is history made interesting. The
TV generation is responsive to getting its information
this way. After I'm done, they're saying George
Mason, not George who?"
Twenty-two years of teaching experience at Mary
Baldwin helps Dr. Gates keep his audiences attentive.
"I got wrapped up in things when I taught, moved
my arms around a lot," he grinned. "I was not dull.
And, of course, I was doing a little theater on the
side."
He and his wife began as show-biz buffs who
worked backstage for the Waynesboro Players and
Oak Grove Theater of Staunton, in the early '60s.
"We started with props and got inevitably lured in,
as most people do," Dr. Gates said.
He is now a veteran of more than 50 roles, from Willy
Loman in "Death of a Salesman" to Thomas More in
"A Man for All Seasons." Dr. Gates and his wife
Caroline appeared together in Theater Wagon's pre-
miere English language production of Nikolai Evrei-
nov's "Styopik and Manya." Now grandparents, they
have a way of finishing each other's sentences.
What is Robbins Gates like?
She: "He's easy-going — "
He: "Very."
She: "And sentimental — "
He: "Very."
She: "And absent-minded — "
He: "Alas, I do subscribe to that stereotype."
Dr. Gates admires George Mason, whom he re-
sembles.
What was George Mason like?
"He did not meet with the other guys in the back of
the Indian Queen Tavern and slap backs. He was very
reserved.
"I get the impression of a very warm person I would
have liked to carry on a conversation with."
In a way, he has. ^
by William Ruehlmann
1988-89 SGA Leadership
"Believing in the principles of
student government, 1 pledge
myself to uphold the ideals and
regulations of the Mary Baldwin
community. 1 recognize the
principles of honor and
cooperation as the basis of our
life together and shall endeavor
faithfully to order my life
accordingly and to encourage
others to fulfill the ideals of the
honor system."
Student Government Association
Honor Pledge
The student government association is responsible for
governing and coordinating all phases of college life based on j
the principles of this honor pledge. While all students are
members, a few strive to be leaders and aspire to the elite
offices. "True leaders rise naturally to the surface like water
bubbling forth from a spring," said guest speaker Judge Jean
Francis. Joanna Kenyon '88, former SGA president, removed
her hat as Janaan Hashim '89 put hers on Decoming the 1988-
89 SGA president. Other newly elected leaders are Cecilia
Stock '90, vice-president, Kristen Earner '90, honor council
chairwoman, Kristie Odom '89, Judicial Board Chairwoman,
and Kathleen Sale '89, house president chairwoman.
The Fusion of Passion and Intellect
When Dean James Lott identified Dr.
Martha N. Evans' Honors Convocation
speech as "a model of the fusion of pas-
sion and intellect," he could have been
eferring to the students whose excellence was
cknowledged that March day.
Francis Auditorium was filled to capacity with stu-
lents, faculty, and staff who came to celebrate the
icademic excellence of 50 Mary Baldwin students. Dr.
•vans, associate professor of French, told her audi-
■nce "there are radical dualities in women's lives that
lictate choices" and that "liberation must take place
vithin the individual," not the institution (see text of
ler speech, page four).
She cited hard work, discipline, and working within
he system as means of forcing limitations and yield-
ng success. For the Honors Scholars, College Mar-
ihalls. Phi Beta Kappa members-in-course, students
)n the Dean's List, and recipients of special awards.
Dr. Evans' address had special meaning.
Forty-two Bailey Scholars were named in the four
:lasses by Dean Lott. These students have maintained
i grade point average of 3.75 or better during the
:ourse of their studies in order to keep their scholar-
ships.
Seven students were given special awards for supe-
ior achievement in their fields. They included Haruna
5umida, the Lambert Award in Art; Emily Joy Ross,
he Outstanding Biology Shadent Award; Margaret
Teitzenrater (Adult Degree Program), Vicki Everton,
md Tiffany Hamm, who shared the Outstanding
Ihemistry Student Award; Stephanie Caplen, the
3enn Award in English; Mary Blasser and Lisa Derby,
he ODK Senior Leadership and Service Award; Ka-
Ihryn Price, the Merit and Leadership Award of the
'rogram for the Exceptionally Gifted; and Luci Hack-
jert, the Thompson Award in Psychology.
Twelve students were tapped into Phi Beta Kappa,
he national honors society. They are Dawn Agnor,
Jsa Albanowski, Brian Arthur (ADP), Lisa Dressier,
<im Elliott, Meg Hartley, Melissa Mitchell, Elizabeth
Mewkirk, Molly Pallavicini; and juniors Tracey Cote,
Ififfany Hamm, and Carol King (ADP).
] In many ways, the Honors Convocation is the high
point of the College year, since academic excellence —
!:he goal of higher education — is recognized in all
lasses and areas of the College. The students were
lonored for their efforts by their faculty and the staff
5ut, most importantly, by their peers. ^
Top, Margaret Heit-
zenrater. Tiffany Hamm,
and Vicki Everton shared
the Outstanding Chem-
istry Student Award
presented by Dr. Betty
Hairfield. Center, Mary
Blasser (and Lisa Derby,
not shown) received the
ODK Senior Leadership
and Service Award from
Dawn Agnor. Left, Luci
Hackbert received the
Thompson Award in
Psychology from Dr. Jack
Kibler.
Evans and Metraux
Named National Scholars
T
-WO Mary Baldwin faculty have received major awards for
scholarship which will support their research and related travel
beginning this summer.
Dr. Martha N. Evans,
associate professor of
French, has received a
prestigious Guggenheim
Fellowship in support of
her on-going research
toward a book tentatively
titled "Hysteria and the
Construction of Theory in
Modern France."
Her scholarly research
on the history of hysteria
in France began in 1985
under a grant from the
American Council of Learned Societies, at which time
she spent a year in France. The Guggenheim will allow
her time and financial support to return to France to
finalize that research and to complete the book.
Dr. Evans is one of 262 United States and Canadian
Fellows at 95 institutions to be awarded a fellowship
from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Founda-
tion. The fellowships have an average stipend of
$23,000 and are granted in support of scholars in the
arts and all academic fields.
Dr. Daniel Metraux,
associate professor of his-
tory and Japanese, hasi
been granted a Fulbright-i
Hays special summer fel-j
lowship under which he
will travel to Korea and
Taiwan. The special fel-
lowship program exists
primarily to support fac-i
ulty at small colleges!
where resources may not
be available for certainji
learning opportunities.
The program selects its grant recipients based upon
their interest in the problems facing the Third World.
Applicants are invited to apply for support to investi-
gate pre-identified problems in named countries.
Dr. Metraux apphed for and won a grant to support;
6 weeks of travel in June and July during which he and
17 other scholars will meet presidents of corporations,
government officials, and leading economic experts,
to study the problem of economic development in
Korea and Taiwan. Sub-groups of three to four schol-
ars will turn in project results at the end of the six week
period.
Dr. Metraux, who will publish a book this fall on
Japanese business, has been teaching a new course in ,
Korean history this semester. He sees the award as "a
chance to educate the teachers so that we may better
'educate our students."^
hen Margaret (Peggy) Herscher Hitch-
man '40 established the George Schill-
ing and Grace Sutherland Herscher
Scholarship Fund at Mary Baldwin
CoUege in the late 1970s, she did so to
honor her parents who adamently
encouraged her education, and to
give recognition to her mother's
special charm of adaptability to
changing times. But her gift also underscores a Mary
Baldwin legacy involving four women.
Grace Elizabeth Sutherland '15 came to Mary
Baldwin from Charleston, West Virginia, because of
the College's excellent reputation and its connec-
tions with the Presbyterian Church. She returned
to marry George Schilling Herscher, her high
school sweetheart, and to enjoy a marriage which
lasted 62 years until her death in 1980. Mr. Hers-
cher, according to Peggy Hitchman, is "a gradu-
ate of the school of hard knocks" who, after a
very successful career is now going strong in
his retirement at age 94.
The Herschers gave birth to a son, George,
and a daughter, Peggy, who also would
graduate from Mary Balwin 25 years later,
Qass of 1940, and who would go on to
become an active alumnae chapter leader,
later a trustee of the College, an important
donor and supporter of Mary Baldwin
students, and — after her own marriage
to William Hitchman, the mother of two
daughters and two sons.
The daughters followed the choice
of their mother and grandmother and
continued the Mary Baldwin legacy.
Grace Hitchman McGrath '70 and
Eve Anne Hitchman Morrison '74
brought the Hitchman family from
their South Carolina home to
Staunton for eight consecutive
years. "We wore a path on the
highway," says Peggy Hitch-
man, which may be one reason
why the Hitchmans finally re-
tired in Stuarts Draft, a small
A
Legacy
Gift
for
Future
Generations
rural community just south of Staunton.
There is hope the legacy may continue. Eve Anne
Morrison (whose mother-in-law. Marguerite Harper
Morrison '35, is also an MBC alumna) has two daught-
ers, Grace and Rebecca, who, at ages 12 and 11, are not
far from making coUege choices of their own.
But the woman who began it all, Grace Sutherland
Herscher, and her husband, George, will continue to
have influence through the scholarship named for
them by their daughter. It is a scholarship fund
currently keyed for prospective students from West
Virginia who are "young women who give promise
of adapting to life 60 years after matriculation," the
very special ability which daughter Peggy saw in
her mother.
"At the age of 84, mother came to Eve's Mary
Baldwin graduation and very much liked the
Commencement speaker's comments about
seeking role moels," recalls Mrs. Hitchman.
"Mother knew role models changed with the
times and believed young women ought to get
on with living.
"When I was struggling after college with
whether or not 1 should join the Navy or the
Red Cross, 1 was reluctant to bring up the
idea to my parents of doing either. When I
did, mother said 'I've been wondering
why you are stiU here!'
"In my day there was a saying: 'You
educate a man, you educate an
individual; you educate a woman, you
educate a family,' " Mrs. Hitchman
states. "I think that was right for its
time. But education has a different
effect on each generation. I'm so glad I
had the opportunity through my
parents. And 1
saw what Mary
Baldwin did for
my daughters. I
wanted to pro-
vide some of
those same
opportunities
for other
Margaret Herscher Hitchman '40 Grace Sutherland Herscher '15
For more information on establishing scholarship funds, special endowments, and other planned gifts to the College, contact the Development
Office, Mary Baldwin College (703) 887-7011.
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